Commissioner slams Harper for about-face on info access reform

[Spazito]

OTTAWA (CP) - Canada's information czar says Prime Minister Stephen Harper has done a complete about-face, introducing plans to increase government secrecy after campaigning on openness.

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Reid, Canada's information commissioner, says in a special report to Parliament today that no government has ever put forward "a more retrograde and dangerous" set of proposals to change the Access to Information Act.

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Reid notes that while in opposition, Harper railed against the Liberals for failing to reform a system that encouraged civil servants to withhold information.

But he says the Tories are now guilty of the same abusive behaviour as they try to make government less transparent.

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http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=b966e137-28b4-4955-9a33-09903501251e&k=5275

I am shocked, no, really, shocked that Harper lied, lol.

[glarius]

1. And yet, he is apparently rising in the polls!.....WHY?...WHAT IS WRONG?

I find it mind-boggling that the Canadian public is being taken in by this smarmy fraud. I really thought Canadians were smarter than that.

[arikara]

2. Seriously?

Corporate media poll rigging perhaps? I haven't been paying any attention to them, but everyone I know is p-o'd at him over one thing or another.

[Bassic]

3. No, it's jsut that there are a whole lot of voters

who are dumb enough to like the guy just because he looks nice and says he'S going to do good things for them, without actually troubling themselves with keeping an eye on what is going on.

How else do you think idiots like Mike Harris ou Jean Charest were elected?

[glarius]

4. All I know is I'm hearing TV commentators saying he's going up in polls.

I'm taking them at their word.:shrug:

[Telly Savalas]

5. It's not lying.

His positions are just continuing to evolve. They tend to evolve rather rapidly, you know.