Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Barrie McKenna thoroughly debunks the claim that “financial literacy” alone is enough to put ordinary citizens on a level playing field with the…
access to information
Parliament In Review: October 6, 2011
On a personal note, October 6 saw the first question period that I'll be able to blog about after seeing in person - as well as the first time I've…
Chin music for months
This is a follow-up to the post last night on the witness list that has been drawn up for Commons committee hearings on the issue of the CBC's responsiveness to…
The Conservatives make a witness list
Interesting list here, to put it mildly: "Peladeau, Von Finckenstein, Sun Media journos to testify before committee on CBC." It's bad enough that multiple representatives who abhor public funding for…
A helpful hint
To Tony Clement and the rest of the Cons: Yes, it may be tempting to count on your own government's refusal to provide meaningful information in response to access requests…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. - Geoffrey Stevens notes that much of the Cons' justification for utterly senseless choices is to point to an imaginary majority: We don’t…
Early evening accountability watch
The RCMP: The Mounties have dropped their preliminary probe of a former Tory aide who was cited for political interference in an access-to-information request. An RCMP spokeswoman said Monday there…
A bridge to know-nothingness
Shorter Denis Lebel:Ignorance is bliss. And we're hard at work making sure Canadians are nothing less than euphoric.
On unwanted assistance
Shorter Harper PCO response to anybody requesting information it would prefer to pre-emptively classify as unavailable:Are you sure you want us to comply with the law on access to information?…
And They Did This BEFORE They Got Their Majority
Probably to the surprise of few who have tracked their anti-democratic and anti-transparency propensities, last month the Harper regime terminated The Coordination of Access to Information Requests System, or CAIRS,…