POLS 3440 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Bev Oda, Canadian Firearms Registry, Lyndon B. Johnson
4 Apr 2016
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Access to information & stephen harper: pugliese, 2010. Information is the lifeblood of democracy harper before he was in office: thought liberal gov"t was weakening the access to information act. Opposition mp"s accuse harper of promoting a culture of deceit . Some departments take as long as a year to release files (mandate is 30 days: some are so censored they"re unreadable. Eggleton had to resign after it was revealed that his office had awarded a contract to his former girlfriend. Conservatives used it to expose the gun registry waste of money. After harper was elected in 2006 bureaucrats began to complain that the. Pmo was taking a greater role in the process: articles that would have taken 2 months were taking 6-12. Today there are more than 40,000 access requests. Marleau the information commissioner complained that the government had created a fog over information .
