Bill C-461 (Historical)

CBC and Public Service Disclosure and Transparency Act

An Act to amend the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act (disclosure of information)

This bill is from the 41st Parliament, 1st session, which ended in September 2013.

Sponsor

Brent Rathgeber Independent

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Report stage (House), as of June 6, 2013
(This bill did not become law.)

Similar bills

C-461 (41st Parliament, 2nd session) CBC and Public Service Disclosure and Transparency Act

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-461s:

C-461 (2019) An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Judges Act (trafficking in persons)

C-461 (2010) An Act to amend the Criminal Code (use of hand-held telecommunications device while operating a motor vehicle)

C-461 (2009) An Act to amend the Criminal Code (use of hand-held telecommunications device while operating a motor vehicle)

Votes

March 27, 2013 Passed That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics.

CBC and Public Service Disclosure and Transparency ActRoutine Proceedings

November 5th, 2012 / 3:05 p.m.

Conservative

Brent Rathgeber Conservative Edmonton—St. Albert, AB

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-461, an act to amend the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act (disclosure of information).

Mr. Speaker, it is truly an honour for me to rise today and table a private member's bill amending the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act. The bill's title is ”the CBC and public service disclosure and transparency act”.

If adopted, the bill would remedy a defect in the current section 68.1 of the Access to Information Act and, in so doing, it would replace the blanket exception with a discretionary exemption, based on an injury based test. The bill would also provide that specific salaries of the highest levels of management in the public service would be subject to access to information requests.

I believe the bill successfully addresses concerns raised by many constituents with respect to taxpayers' rights to information and is a step in the right direction toward enhanced government transparency and accountability.

I encourage all members to support the CBC and public service disclosure and transparency act.

(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)