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| Outdated Freedom of Information laws leave Canadian media in the dark |
| Professor Roberts Quoted in Convergence Magazine article |
By Michael Raine
Access to information (ATI) is in a state of paralysis in Canada. It has stopped working for many reasons from the technical to political, says author and ATI user Fred Vallance-Jones.
This was made embarrassingly apparent recently in a report by British academics Robert Hazell and Ben Worthy, of University College in London, that ranked Canada last in a study of freedom of information laws in five parliamentary democracies.
Not only is Canada no longer a model of good policy and practice, it’s increasingly a model of what not to do, says Alasdair Roberts, Canadian professor of law and public policy at Boston’s Suffolk University Law School. “It’s now increasingly a country where you hear stories about problems of maladministration and problems about bureaucratic and political resistance to the law.” |
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