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‘The issue will not go away’

Three important dispatches from Embassy magazine this week. Laura Payton on the plight of the whistleblower. Lee Berthiaume talks to the Information Commissioner about the paper trail, or lack thereof. And retired colonel Michel Drapeau argues passionately for a public inquiry.

Access to Information wants to be free. From Robert Marleau.

Wells has the full story on the soon-to-be-infamous Drapeau letter, in which the retired colonel has a few home truths for Information Commissioner Robert Marleau, whose ‘triage’ approach to dealing with priority requests “is offensive to the very notion that the access right is quasi-constitutional in nature.”