Four provinces and the federal government are dialling back their freedom-of-information (FOI) laws, moves that ominously mirror one another.
British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Nova Scotia and Ottawa are tightening transparency legislation, or proposing to do so, to make internal government documents harder for citizens, journalists and others to obtain.
Timelines for governments to provide responses to such requests are being extended, for example, and more records are being declared off-limits.
