T-680-08 - Applicant's Affidavit

The documents referred to are all on this webiste, one way or another.

2008 SCC 28 - The Supreme Court of Canada blows out Canada's national-security state - (9-0)

"The principles of international law and comity of nations, which normally require that Canadian officials operating abroad comply with local law and which might otherwise preclude application of the Charter to Canadian officials acting abroad, do not extend to participation in processes that violate Canada’s binding international human rights obligations. "

--unamimous judgement from The Supreme Court of Canada

Other details at the Globe and Mail website.

Mr. Marleau shows up...

The previous Information Commissioner, no friend of the current government's approach to public access to information, made the following observation in 1999:

"After I had been confirmed as federal Information Commissioner, I met with the former commissioner, John Grace, to get his advice. One thing he said struck me in particular; he said that in his seven years as Privacy Commissioner and eight years as Information Commissioner (a total of 15 years spent reviewing the records which government wanted to withhold from Canadians) he hadn't seen a really good secret. My experience is much the same over the first year of my term. For the most part, officials love secrecy because it is a tool of power and control, not becuase the information they hold is particularly sensitive in nature."

Federal Court link for T-680-08

The Access to Information Act seems to work faster if you go to court....

Application for Judicial Review - Updated