Prof. Mary Francoli at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On November 28th, 2022. See this statement in context.

November 28th, 2022 / 5 p.m.

Director, Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs and Associate Dean, Faculty of Public Affairs, Carleton University, As an Individual

Prof. Mary Francoli

Should documents be classified in a way that makes them easier to find? I think there are two things we need to think about. The first is how documents are originally classified. There has been a tendency to over-classify things, and then things stay closed.

I think it would be useful to look at a system of declassification, and that's something we are lacking. It's something on which the Information Commissioner has published a special report. I know she's mentioned it in her testimony to this committee before, I think in May, and she mentioned it to us at the NS-TAG as well.

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