Conservatives call on Liberals to reverse course on proposed access-to-information changes

Veteran investigative journalist Dean Beeby says the Liberals’ proposed changes, including shielding emails and texts from access-to-information requests, is 'regressive' and 'should be scrapped.'

The Conservatives have called for Treasury Board President Shafqat Ali to withdraw proposed changes to the Access to Information Act that 'seek to dramatically alter both the scope of information Canadians are entitled to ... and the timelines for accessing it.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY MARLO GLASS

July 6, 2026

Conservatives are calling on the Treasury Board Secretariat to abandon a slate of proposed changes to legislation that could see documents like emails and texts shielded from access-to-information requests.

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