Just for reference, this was on Project Anecdote.
While we have the RCMP up, there's another history. You referenced American examples. I will bring to your attention the work on COINTELPRO in the 1970s and what has been called administrative sabotage. In fact, Paul Marsden, the former military archivist for Library and Archives of Canada, said, “Something unique is slowly strangling Canadian history, and we should call it out” in these processes.
Could you perhaps comment and expand on why transparency on these types of sensitive archival records.... I think with this particular file it references the sensitivity around FOIs of CSIS and the RCMP with specificity around the RG146 vault.
Can you talk about the need for the automatic declassification of information for the public interest?