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Vaughn Palmer: Information commissioner wrong in denying an NDP culture of secrecy

Opinion: Michael Harvey has been vocal is defending Bill 9, saying it does not materially damage access to B.C. government information

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VICTORIA — Information and Privacy Commissioner Michael Harvey is defending the NDP government’s Bill 9 from critics who say that it would “weaken” and even “eviscerate” the province’s freedom of information legislation.

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Harvey insists the provisions giving public service heads greater leeway to delay, narrow and outright reject information requests do not reflect a “culture of secrecy.”

He sees them as a necessary reform for a system........

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