Information & Ethics committee  No. Particularly the private sector, who sort of live off the teat of the government in many ways—

Information & Ethics committee  It's hard to keep track of all the subsidiaries of some of the Crown corporations and whether ones like Canada Post are covered or not, but if you have significant funding.... NavCan is called private, but it's doing a public function. There are so many agencies—including, by the

Information & Ethics committee  It's because it's a pretend phony review built into the act. All they want to do is promote their idea of proactive disclosure, which is really phony. All they want to do is make little changes to the act. They don't want real changes. Then they want you to believe that they agre

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, they could stop quoting every damn exemption that they can creatively use. They can get off their whatevers and answer the requests instead of waiting five or 10 years. They can do a lot of things, but they have an attitude problem about it, so they don't want to do them. A

Information & Ethics committee  Well, I guess they had something really important to say if they couldn't get it out in about five pages. That's common. That's not uncommon at all. They have machines now. They don't even have to be an access officer. They can say section this or section that, and it's all gon

Information & Ethics committee  Trying to get a public employee to talk to you is like trying to do something that you can't do. We have a serious problem in this country when people are intimidated by excessive rules from central agencies like Treasury Board, the Prime Minister's Office and the PCO. That intim

Information & Ethics committee  It's a statutory provision that was even decimated further by Bill C-58. It's not part of the Constitution Act. Until we get that, we're lost. We will never.... The powers that be—the corporations, the law enforcement agencies, the bureaucrats and the politicians—will not allow t

Information & Ethics committee  Right now there's a myth that we have the right to information, but until we firmly establish under charter subsection 2(b)—which is freedom of expression—that we have a right to access freedom of information, we're at a loss. I don't care what the courts say about a quasi-const

Information & Ethics committee  Well, no, it didn't, because it's one-sided information. Take briefing notes, the lists that are prepared.... What do you get? You go and get the briefing notes, and they're sanitized talking points. They have nothing to do with the real operations of government, which people s

Information & Ethics committee  With a few areas, I could see it, maybe for two or three years, but in most areas, no. It's just highly overrated. I went and got cabinet discussion papers when they were available, about 400 of them, and it was just like municipal council records. There was nothing in there that

Information & Ethics committee  Why don't we just start with creative avoidance of massive-scale record destruction if it's a draft? Also, oral communication is rampant. If you name it, this government and previous governments have done it.

Information & Ethics committee  Bill C-58 destroyed the access act because it hived off, as a phony proactive measure, the Prime Minister's records, ministers' records and a host of other things.

Information & Ethics committee  Pierre Poilievre and John Baird established the worst and lousiest whistle-blowing non-protection act in the world.

Information & Ethics committee  Definitely.

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely not.