Annual Report
Information Commissioner
1999-2000

“The overarching purpose of access to information legislation …is to facilitate democracy. It does so in two related ways. It helps to ensure first, that citizens have the information required to participate meaningfully in the democratic process, and secondly, that politicians and bureaucrats remain accountable to the citizenry.”

Former Supreme Court of Canada Justice
Gerard LaForest in Dagg v. Canada
(Minister of Finance), [1997] 2 S.C.R. 403 at 432.