LeBlanc Promises ‘Robust’ Transparency Effort at Inquiry as AG Warns Redaction Process Unsustainable

LeBlanc Promises ‘Robust’ Transparency Effort at Inquiry as AG Warns Redaction Process Unsustainable
Minister of Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs Dominic LeBlanc scans the room as he appears as a witness at the Public Inquiry Into Foreign Interference in Federal Election Processes and Democratic Institutions in Ottawa on Feb. 2, 2024. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
Noé Chartier
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Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc told the Foreign Interference Commission he expects officials will make a “good faith” effort to exercise transparency after the attorney general has pushed back on the onerous redaction process to release classified documents.

“In no way would we seek to use the amount of work necessary on our part to allow the commission to do its work properly to be an ‘empêchement’ [obstacle] or a source of delay or frustration,” Mr. LeBlanc said during his Feb. 2 testimony before the inquiry.