Tag: access to environmental information
How Canada’s Federal and Provincial Governments Collaborate Against the Public Right to Access Environmental Information
by Drew Yewchuk, Allard School of Law This post is part of the Lessons from the Aarhus Convention and Escazú Agreement for Procedural Environmental Rights in Canada blog symposium. Secrecy enables government messaging control and defeats democratic accountability. The right to information is foundational to democratic participation in the conduct of public affairs. When journalists…
