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<title><![CDATA[Harper News Blackout]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s Toronto Star&#8217;s editorial cartoon pretty much sums up Harper&#8217;s promised]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday's Toronto Star's editorial cartoon pretty much sums up Harper's promised "transparency".</p>
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<p>It's very appropriate because they are in the habit of delaying release of information under "Access to information act".  And once the information and/or documents is released, it's full of censored and blackout text.</p>
<p>Even, Gomery, who headed the inquiry Harper used happily in the election (to promise a transparent and accountable government) have now come out <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/cp/national/080130/n0130101A.html" target="_blank">with hard criticism of Harper</a>.</p>
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<font color="#0000ff"><i>Gomery also points to the Tory failure to revamp the Access to Information Act to make it easier for journalists and other citizens to pry documentation from the bureaucracy.</i></font></p>
<p><font color="#0000ff"><i>"The government was saying at the time (of the report) that transparency was very important and that they wanted to improve transparency. In practice it's been an exact reverse."</i></font></p>
<p><font color="#0000ff"><i>The Conservatives did expand the access law to cover many federal institutions that had previously been exempt. But that didn't improve the actual mechanics of the process, in Gomery's view.</i></font></p>
<p><font color="#0000ff"><i>There are still lengthy delays in releasing information, and too many sensitive files end up "on some minister's desk or in the Privy Council Office someplace."</i></font></p>
<p><font color="#0000ff"><i>"They've politicized it, and it's not supposed to be politicized."<br />
</i></font><img src="http://cyberwanderer.wordpress.com/files/2008/01/closequote.jpg" alt="closequote.jpg" /></p></blockquote>
<p>And that's just the tip of his criticism. Go to <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/cp/national/080130/n0130101A.html" target="_blank">the article</a> for the whole story.</p>
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