When federal information management practices interfere with public access: need an effective watchdog

Parliament could call for a more effective access to information commissioner. It's time.

Ottawa needs a Parliamentary watchdog to monitor and change Ottawa's increasingly troublesome information management practices. That's because those in charge of information management at the Library and Archives and Treasury Board hardly fit the bill as the needed information management champions.

Two of those agencies' senior officials appeared last November in front of the Commons Access to Information Committee. But they did not...