POLS 3440 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Open Government
21 Mar 2017
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Stephen harper transparency most closed, controlled and secrecy-obsessed government of the past half-century. Politicians and bureaucrats are fall less likely to break the law or bend the rules if they know that their transgressions will be exposed to the country at large. If you wouldn"t, don"t do it. (cid:499: 2. Democracy"s best protection is an informed citizenry: 1. The disclosure of members" and ministers" financial holdings: freedom of press article 2 of the canadian charter of rights. No one would contend that this principle has been fully embraced or firmly established. But there has been some progress, both in the united states and. Canada: usa 1966 freedom of information act implemented after. President johnson had many secrets about the failed war in vietnam : canada 1983 access to information act, under the act, any citizen may request information. The right to information is, in theory, absolute: all government departments are required to keep records of the files in their possession.
