[news] Canada's Culture of Secrecy

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By Robert Cribb and Fred Vallance Jones | the Hamilton Spectator | May 2, 2005 "Freedom of Information? It's a farce at worst and selective at best. A nationwide investigation shows that the government quite often tells us what it wants us to know; and the more contentious the subject matter, the tougher it is to get at." "Canadians who went in search of basic government data on matters such as restaurant inspections an complaints against police were regularly sonewalled by a culture of beuraucratic secracy."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/28/132259/279