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Why The Globe and Mail set out to take on Canada’s culture of secrecy
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Why The Globe and Mail set out to take on Canada’s culture of secrecy
FOI laws are supposed to let Canadians see how governments and public servants work. Yet at every turn, the process gives institutions incentives to keep records hidden
Article content The RCMP’s security branch, responsible for sniffing out subversives at the time, quietly tracked the rise of the Committee for an Independent Canada, seeing it as ripe for “exploitation or manipulation” by radicals. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or RCMP spied on Canadian nationalist committee as it pushed pro-independence agenda Back to video The committee, which attracted numerous political and cultural luminaries, pushed for greater Canadian control of the industrial, media and foreign policy spheres in an era of profo...