Trudeau Government Eyes National Declassification Centre for Historical Spy Documents

Trudeau Government Eyes National Declassification Centre for Historical Spy Documents
Security intelligence expert Wesley Wark poses at the University of Ottawa's Social Sciences Building in Ottawa on May 14, 2013. Sean Kilpatrick/ The Canadian Press
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OTTAWA—The Trudeau government is looking at ways to pry open Canada’s neglected national security vaults, possibly through creation of a centre to declassify historical documents, a newly released memo reveals.

But getting federal departments to unseal large numbers of secret records “will be a challenge without an overarching policy and resources,” concedes the internal note prepared earlier this year for the deputy minister of Public Safety Canada.