OttawaRights and Democracy: Rest in peace, Rémy BeauregardEight months ago I began calling for the public release of the Deloitte audit of Rights and Democracy . That was about five weeks...
OttawaRights and Democracy: So everyone agrees! And there’s no problem! Right?Over at the CBC, their Kady O’Malley points out that Parliamentary privilege being what it is — powerful — "none" of the...
OttawaRights and Democracy: The twilight struggle of transparency and accountabilityOn Nov. 4 I wrote to Stéphane Bourgon, the new communications director for Rights and Democracy, quoting his own words back to...
Ottawa“Democracy demands accountability and rights require responsibility”WELLS: Very well. Let them account, if their word means anything at all.
UncategorizedUpdate on Rights and Democracy Access-to-Information RequestLast November, I made an access-to-information request to the Privy Council Office asking to see a performance evaluation report...
UncategorizedAccess-to-Information request on Rights and Democracy ignoredLet us assume, for the sake of the argument, that Canada’s Access to Information Act is a legally-enforceable piece of legislation...
UncategorizedThe Commons: Weirder stillIggy: "The government has made a total mess of a great institution, Rights & Democracy"
OttawaRights and Democracy: Let 100 schools of thought contendA rebuttal to Sen. Linda Frum’s guest column
GeneralThe real trouble at Rights and DemocracySen. Linda Frum on the controversy; Paul Wells responds