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Government Information in Canada/Information gouvernementale au Canada, Number/Numéro 17 (March 1999) IntroductionIn the fall of 1997, the Canadian Newspaper Asslociation
asked the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University in Kingston to
make a comprehensive study of Canada's freedom of information (FOI) laws.
The result was Limited Access: Assessing the Health of Canada's Freedom
of Information Laws by Prof. Alasdair Roberts.
Limited Access is a landmark study, reviewing the state of
Canada's FOI legislation over the nearly 20 years since the first such
Canadian legislation, the federal Access to Information Act and Privacy
Act of 1982.
We are pleased to dedicate this issue of Government
Information in Canada to a forum for discussion of the Roberts report.
We also hope that it will stimulate continuing discussion of this
important issue.
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