Canada’s cult of confidentiality
Too often, in too many different contexts and for utterly indefensible reasons, the position of official Canada is that Canadians are delicate children who can’t be trusted with information of clear public interest.– and the prim scolding aimed at those impertinent enough to raise serious questions about the issue – is only the latest and perhaps the weightiest example.
The immediate result of this is to deny Canadians information to which they’re entitled. But the deeper effect is to cultivate a sense of scarcity and paternalism, as though anything more is an unreasonable expectation and people should be grateful for whatever crumbs they can pry out of the tightly clutched fists of the bureaucracy.
Most recently, in response to the swirl of reporting on Chinese interference in the last two federal elections, Canadians have been treated to a mind-boggling array of deflections and tsk-tsking. In a committee examining the issue, Liberal MP Greg Fergus asked the deputy minister of foreign affairs whether the news coverage itself posed a threat. “Is it possible that unconfirmed and unverified leaks could be in themselves a form of foreign interference?”
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