Freedom of Information Audit 2006
In spite of increased calls for accountability and governments’ commitments to improve transparency, the Canadian Newspaper Association (CNA) has...
No Accountability without Transparency
The Canadian Newspaper Association (CNA) is the voice of Canada’s daily newspaper industry, representing 81 daily newspapers published across...
Industry recommendations on impact of the Federal Accountability Act on FOI
Mr Chair, allow me first to thank you for this opportunity to address the Committee. The Canadian Newspaper Association...
Newspaper and Taxpayers’ Groups Unite to Press Harper to keep FOI Reform Promises
Ottawa, April 12, 2006 - The Canadian Taxpayers Federation and the Canadian Newspaper Association are calling on Prime Minister...
Access to Information Reforms in Federal Accountability Act Fall Short
The Canadian Newspaper Association is deeply concerned that the removal of Access to Information reforms from the Federal Accountability...
CNA urges Government not to retreat from pledges on transparency
The Canadian Newspaper Association is deeply troubled by suggestions that the Conservative government plans to remove a core campaign...
CNA Urges Harper to Adopt Measures to Improve Transparency
The Canadian Newspaper Association welcomed the Gomery Commission’s recommendations to curb government secrecy and encourage a culture of openness,...
Ottawa Routinely Breaks the Law in Treatment of Media Requests under Access to Information,...
CNA Asks Information Commissioner to Investigate Secret Rules that Block Transparency
The federal government is applying bureaucratic systems that filter...
Access to Information reform: “Let’s get it right”
by Anne Kothawala
(Remarks to the Riley Information Services Seminar on Access to Information, Ottawa, September 8, 2005)
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Parliamentarians can right wrongs that kept Canada in dark on sponsorship scandal
CNA appeals to Parliamentary Committee to reform Access to Information Act
Warning that a “culture of secrecy” within government bureaucracies...