Annual Report
Information Commissioner
2002-2003

"The future of Canadian democracy depends on being open with the people unless there is some clear reason why openness would endanger our society."

The Myth of Security at Canada's Airports,
Report of the Standing Committee
on National Security and Defence,
January, 2003 at p. 138

"The purpose of this Act is to extend the present laws of Canada to provide a right of access to information in records under the control of a government institution in accordance with the principles that government information should be available to the public, that necessary exemptions to the right of access should be limited and specific and that decisions on the disclosure of government information should be reviewed independently of government."

Subsection 2(1)
Access to Information Act