MPs to Study Access to Information System, Federal ‘Culture of Secrecy’

MPs to Study Access to Information System, Federal ‘Culture of Secrecy’
Conservative MP Pat Kelly rises during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on June 4, 2021. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
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The House of Commons information, ethics and privacy committee plans to look at Canada’s much-maligned access-to-information regime—the latest in a long line of studies of a system intended to make government more transparent.

Conservative MP Pat Kelly, the committee chairman, says the system is plagued by excessive delays and a culture of secrecy that has been “baking in for decades.”