[CivicAccess-discuss] How do deal with FOI - Create no Documents or destroy them!

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

Looks like the tories are wreaking a bit more havock!  Best way to deal with
transparency and democracy, according to this minority government that no
one I know (except for 1 person) voted for, seems to be to not produce any
documents whatsoever!

*G&M: Is this the answer to access requests? Stop keeping records?*
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/is-this-the-answer-to-access-requests-stop-keeping-records/article1480151/


> But the Conservatives may have found the ultimate solution to the problem.
> There's an easy way to prevent anyone from getting access to your records, a
> veteran bureaucrat explained this week – don't keep records. Team Harper is
> catching on, he said. There's far less documentation, far less
> record-keeping. It's the formula for deniability. Why not make it the way of
> the future?
>
> The bureaucrat was at the Department of National Defence, where the Afghan
> detainee affair has brought controversy, some of it prompted by journalistic
> prying through access laws. “I get a call from the Privy Council Office,” he
> said. “They're setting up a conference call. The first thing that's said is
> ‘No note-taking, no recordings, nothing. We don't want to see anything in
> writing on this.' … That's the way they develop policies now and, for my
> money, it's scary.”
>
Next they will stop producing data!  Hmm! Sounds like China.

*via:* SPNO List

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Tracey P. Lauriault
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