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Q&A | Book looks beyond Canada’s ‘broken’ access-to-information system to tackle transparency

Other countries empower their ombud offices, but Canada typically appoints ‘tame, reluctant, risk-averse watchdogs with strong limitations on their funding,’ says author Matt Malone.

Matt Malone is author of the new book Open Governments, Secret Canada.Handout photograph, image courtesy of James Lorimer & Company Ltd.

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BY KEN RUBIN

September 8, 2026

Columnist Ken Rubin spoke with author and lawyer Matt Malone about his new book examining Canada’s access-to-information regime and related legislation.

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