‘A disaster’ for access, expert says as cuts push Library and Archives to end proactive declassification work
'It's just another tragedy in the access story,' says historian Timothy Sayle of the decision to axe the three-year-old program, and part of a 'broader pattern of underfunding access to information and preventing Canadians from studying Canada's history.'
Library and Archives Canada has ended proactive declassification activities that helped lower the security classification of historical government records, a move access and archival experts say removes one part of an already limited federal system for making older records e...
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