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Title: Ottawa censors majority of Access to Information requests | Toronto Star
Category: Law & Order
Posted By: shockedcanadian
Date: 2015-07-08 19:30:37
Canadian

[shockedcanadian]

That is in sharp contrast with U.S federal agencies, which grant full access to government records at a far higher rate.


Only 26 per cent of requests sent to Environment Canada were left uncensored. In comparison, the full disclosure rate last year for its U.S counterpart, the Environmental Protection Agency, was 88 per cent, according to the Center for Effective Government.


Of the 15 U.S departments profiled by the Washington-based think tank, 10 fully disclosed more than half of all documents requested. No major federal agency in Canada crossed the 50 per cent mark.

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[DrCaleb]

Stephen Harper, 2006 Stephen Harper, 2006:

You can’t govern effectively without trust. And there can be no trust without integrity and transparency.

http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/news/2006/04/20 ... deralism-0