You can help push for key changes to end excessive secrecy in government – especially in the federal government
Since 2012, the federal Conservative government has been claiming to have an open government plan. In fact, every independent report has shown more excessive secrecy in the federal government than any time since the so-called Access to Information law passed in 1983.
The law is so weak it really should be called the “Guide to Keeping Government Information Secret” law.
Right now Conservative Cabinet minister Tony Clement is proposing a plan to the international Open Government Partnership that will only make already public information a bit more easily accessible.
This will do nothing to end secrecy that encourages waste, abuses and corruption – the law needs to be strengthened to require more transparency, with stronger enforcement and penalties for anyone who keeps information secret that the public has a right to know!
Please click here to send your letter now calling on the federal Conservatives, and governments across Canada, to make key changes to laws to open up government and make it more accountable to you.
Minister Clement and the Conservatives are only taking comments on their proposed plan for a very limited time – please send your message by next Monday, October 20th.
And please Share this with everyone you know – see more details set out below.
And please help keep this campaign going until these key changes to open up government are won. To donate now, please click here.
All together we can make difference!
Thank you very much for your support,
Duff, Tyler, Brad and Josephine
and all the volunteers across Canada who make Democracy Watch’s successful campaigns possible
To see a recent article about the very limited, so-called open government plan the federal Conservatives are proposing, click here.
To see a Democracy Watch news release that points out the flaws in the weak, so-called open government plans the Conservatives have been pushing since 2012, click here.
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