The annual award recognizing Canada’s most secretive government or publicly funded agency was handed out in Halifax Saturday evening.
The federal government was named for its 2015-16 omnibus budget bill that erased the last trace of the former federal gun registry.
“Legislation has permanently silenced any value any Canadian would ever be able to get out of that data, forever. Or, as nominator Dean Beeby of CBC News put it – The Astounding Harper Government Time Machine (registered trademark pending, all rights reserved to the Canadian public),” the association said in a media release.
“Alas, this Conservative science project did not arrive in time to erase Mike Duffy / Nigel Wright records,” Beeby wrote in his nomination. “Nor was a Liberal version available to erase sponsorship scandal records.
“But at least going forward, the machine will be on hand to smother future scandals and cleanse Canada’s past of embarrassing episodes of political misbehavious.”
Other worthy nominees included:
Privy Council Office – for its battle with Newspapers Canada’s FOI auditors over how it would or could release data.
The City of Ottawa media relations office – for refusing to answer a question on how many times an ambulance had been called to a particular address.
This year’s CAJ annual conference was held in Halifax and marked the 15th year the association presented a Code of Silence award.
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Source: halifaxer.com/
Author: HALIFAXER STAFF
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