We've seen, in the United Kingdom, that sensitive materials like policy advice and certain ministerial communications are exempt. A system—as demonstrated there—exists and functions. It allows for what we talked about in our earlier discussion—providing transparency and trust to Canadians regarding what's happening in government. When the Prime Minister's Office is outside this law, Canadians never get to the stage where government even has to defend a refusal, because it's not captured by the law.
Is this the core accountability gap that Canada's Parliament needs to fix?
