I bring that up because I want to say that I've certainly referenced your work, and I've put the question of administrative sabotage to multiple subject matter experts across the country. I would say that a large portion of them agree on the context in which you framed it in your piece entitled “Administrative sabotage”, wherein you discussed how COINTELPRO records have become available in the U.S. due to their declassification system, but how in Canada these records are extremely difficult to access. As a result, accountability from the government for its past abuses—you've referenced a couple of other examples—is absent from policy discourse.
As somebody who in a contemporary way has been actively involved in civil rights, particularly regarding the Black Lives Matter movement, the Movement for Black Lives, police brutality and other things, I can only imagine that perhaps out there somewhere there might be a file on me.
Can you describe for a moment, in that context, how this retaining of documents and this withholding of critical information impacts the way in which Canadians view our own culpability within systemic racism and anti-Blackness in Canada?