Former head of Canada’s public service says poor record-keeping is limiting the ability of the public to access information
, said haphazard record-keeping in Ottawa is impeding the public’s ability to access the information. He said storing and organizing the flow of documents and other material requires constant effort and government investment.
It said that every year it “assigns resources to integrate the historically significant ‘unopened’ boxes” into its collection. However, new material is constantly arriving for it to sort through. Cabinet minutes include a paper marked “secret” recording a report by former prime minister Pierre Trudeau about his state visit to the Soviet Union in 1971 in the midst of the Cold War. The archives also have a briefing book of the visit when an accord was signed between Canada and the Soviet Union.
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