OTTAWA–The federal Conservatives have quietly killed a giant information registry that was used by lawyers, academics, journalists and ordinary citizens to hold government accountable.The registry, created in 1989, is an electronic list of every request filed to all federal departments and agencies under the Access to Information Act.Known as CAIRS, for Co-ordination of Access to Information Requests System, the database allowed ordinary citizens to identify millions of pages of once-secret documents that became public through individual freedom-of-information requests over many years…
Alasdair Roberts, a political scientist at Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in New York, built a version of the database by requesting the CAIRS electronic records through an Access to Information Act request, and updated the site monthly. CBC journalist David McKie took over the work in 2006 using another publicly accessible website (http://www.onlinedemocracy.ca).
Articles & Posts about this issue:
- Conservatives Kill ATIP Database, Michael Geist May 2, 2008
- Conservatives Kill CAIRS, Canadian Journalism Project (J-Source.ca), May 4, 2008
- Tories quietly kill acess to information registry, CTV.ca, May 3, 2008
- Media Reports Government Wants to Can Access to Information Database, Media Boy, May 3, 2008
- Killed: Coordination of Access to Information Requests System, Information Policy Blog, May 3, 2008
- Tories kill access to information database, CBC News, May 2, 2008
- Harper defends database shutdown, Globe and Mail, May 5, 2008
- Tories opt out of key Access to Information database, Globe and Mail, May 5, 2008
- Commissioner’s office blasts database shutdown, Globe and Mail May 6, 2008
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