Beeby: Prying information out of government just getting harder

Treasury Board of Canada recently released fresh government-wide statistics about citizens’ use of the federal Access to Information Act in 2023-24. Among the most striking developments is a 10.5 per cent drop in the number of requests received last year, compared with the year before — the largest annual decline in at least a decade. That’s 5,520 fewer requests, from an all-time high of 52,377 requests filed in 2022-23. Read More