We want to be able to shine light on these things, not go in the opposite direction.
It is going to hurt its feelings, and someone might get fired for doing bad. The government is going to tell Canadians it is sorry, they cannot have the information they requested because it thinks it is vexatious. What does that mean? It is vexatious to whom, to some department that has been badly handling public funds? Yes, I bet that information would look vexatious. We have also heard from the Information Commissioner's office that with these terms, if a request is deemed vexatious by the government, it can deny the request. We heard from the Information Commissioner's office that complaints have been rising since its new disclosure policy. The Liberals say that they are going to self-disclose and that should be good. Government does not disclose these things.
That only came to light because of access to information. The residential school survivors have been fighting with government for decades for the simple acknowledgement that they or their parents attended a certain residential school at which they were abused horrifically, and for which the Government of Canada was dragged, finally, to apologize for. It was stealing money under the guise of some sponsorship program, and it was only because of access to information that we found this out. People went to jail over this, a government fell over this, as it should have, because it was stealing. We would have never learned that Liberals in that part of the country were padding their pockets with public money. She said that if the same request had come in after this bill becomes law, we would have never learned about the whole sponsorship scandal. Who told us that? The Information Commissioner told us that. Under Bill C-58, that would not be allowed anymore. He used a part of the Access to Information Act and asked for the documents between this date to that date from a certain department. Leblanc from The Globe and Mail dug and dug into government information. Oh, my, what delusional sense of history do the Liberals have? That only came to light because Mr.
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