I am in favour of any process that will ascertain why evidence in Canada's possession about how human beings were being tortured and killed by a regime to whom we were delivering human beings.... I'm interested in any inquiry that can establish why that evidence was not readily shared in response to several access to information requests, and why it is not being shared with the Federal Court in the Amnesty International and B.C. Civil Liberties Association judicial review.
That seems to be the sort of information where the stakes--human lives--are so overridingly important that there is no ethical scope for paltering about what the act means. The ethics of the civil service must be to disclose information that isn't within one of the stated exemptions of the act and also has a profound public interest to be free. Evidence of torture fits that category. It should be free where it does not, as in this case, legitimately become exempt under the act.