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Freedom of information in Canada describes the capacity for the Canadian Government to provide timely and accurate access to internal data concerning government services. Each province and territory in Canada has its own access to freedom of information legislation. ==History== By 1982, twelve countries, including France, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands, and the U.S. (1966), had enacted modern ATI legislation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Love Affair with Secrecy )〕 Canada's Access to Information Act came into force in 1983, under the Pierre Trudeau government. In 1987, the Solicitor General tabled a unanimous report to Parliament, ''Open and Shut: Enhancing the Right to Know and the Right to Privacy'' which contained over 100 recommendations for amending the ATI and privacy acts. In 1998, the government would append a clause to the Access Act, making it a federal offence to destroy, falsify, or conceal public documents. In August 2000, the Ministry of Justice and the president of the Treasury Board launched a task force to review the Access Act. The committee’s report, delivered in June 2002, found “a crisis in information management” within government. Université de Moncton professor Donald Savoie’s 2003 book, ''Breaking the Bargain'', argues that in Canada there is a reluctance to put anything in writing, including e-mail, that might find its way into public discourse. In the fall of 2003, John Bryden, attempted to initiate a comprehensive overhaul of the Act through a private members bill, (Bill C-462 ), which died on the Order Paper with the dissolution of the 37th Parliament in May 2004. A similar bill was introduced by NDP MP Pat Martin on 7 October 2004 as (Bill C-201 ). In April 2005, the Justice Minister Irwin Cotler introduced a discussion paper entitled ''A Comprehensive Framework for Access to Information Reform''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= THE ACCESS TO INFORMATION ACT AND RECENT PROPOSALS FOR REFORM )〕 On April 1, 2008, the Stephen Harper government shut down CAIRS, the access to information database. explained this decision as a result of CAIRS being "deemed expensive, () deemed to slow down the access to information." In response, Leader of the Opposition Stéphane Dion described Harper's government as "the most secretive government in the history of our country."〔 On September 2008, a 393-page report sponsored by several Canadian newspaper groups, compared Canada’s Access to Information Act to the FOI laws of the provinces and of 68 other nations titled: (Fallen Behind: Canada’s Access to Information Act in the World Context ). In 2009, The Walrus (magazine) published a (detailed history of FOI in Canada ). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Freedom of information in Canada」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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