Shortly before Parliament adjourned for the summer last week, the House of Commons ethics committee tabled the findings from its study of the federal government’s access to information system — the program through which citizens and journalists can (in theory) obtain information in the government’s possession.
The 118-page report makes 38 recommendations aimed at fixing what is widely considered a broken system. But in a dissenting opinion, the Liberal members of the committee quibbled with nine of those calls and even questioned the sincerity of the committee’s Conservative members.
“The Conservative Party of Canada would never implement such a recommendation should it form government again,” the
