{"id":13351,"date":"2015-10-13T08:08:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T13:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13351"},"modified":"2015-10-13T08:08:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T13:08:41","slug":"neil-macdonald-government-sensitivity-over-you-hearing-about-sensitive-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13351","title":{"rendered":"Neil Macdonald: Government sensitivity over you hearing about &#8216;sensitive&#8217; information"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"story-headline\">\n<h3 class=\"story-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/neil-macdonald-government-sensitivity-over-you-hearing-about-sensitive-information-1.3267717\" target=\"_blank\">Neil Macdonald: Government sensitivity over you hearing about &#8216;sensitive&#8217; information<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"story-deck\"><strong>Deputy minister calls in the RCMP after media leaks at her department<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Canadian democracy has, we are told, been maliciously undermined at Citizenship and Immigration, and the department&#8217;s top public servant is determined to set things right, on behalf of the Canadian people.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Minister Anita Biguzs has declared herself &#8220;deeply concerned.&#8221; What has happened, she says, is an ethical erosion of the very cornerstone of the trust and democratic function of government.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/canada-election-2015-citizenship-rcmp-1.3264945\">Citizenship Department leaks to media probed by RCMP<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/passport-processing-system-glitch-citizenship-and-immigration-canada-1.3265821\">New passport processing system suspended after glitches, security gaps revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/syrian-refugee-crisis-stephen-harper-pmo-audit-1.3262902\">Syrian refugee crisis makes unexpected return as campaign issue<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news2\/interactives\/poll-tracker\/2015\/index.html\">Poll Tracker:\u00a0Follow the latest numbers<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, before you go leaping to conclusions, Biguzs was not talking about the prime minister&#8217;s political staff\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/canada-election-2015-refugee-processing-pmo-1.3262423\">overriding the professionals in her department<\/a>\u00a0who were choosing which Syrian refugees will be lucky enough to end up in Canada.<\/p>\n<div class=\"figure col3width floatright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.3267820.1444687353!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_220\/anita-biguzs.jpg\" alt=\"Anita Biguzs\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"figure-caption\">Anita Biguzs, deputy minister of citizenship and immigration, has called in the RCMP to investigate leaks from her department to the media. (Citizenship and Immigration Canada)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nor is she talking about the near-total absence of public transparency in her department, which has made it nearly impossible for a member of the public to reach anything other than a voice mail message. (&#8220;If we started taking public calls, we&#8217;d never get any work done,&#8221; a departmental spokeswoman told me a few weeks ago, with no evident irony.)<\/p>\n<p>No, what has provoked Bigusz&#8217;s anger, and determination for a reckoning, is that someone under her command apparently had the gall to tell a journalist \u2014 and thereby the Canadian public \u2014 about the PMO overriding the professionals in her department.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Macdonald: Government sensitivity over you hearing about &#8216;sensitive&#8217; information Deputy minister calls in the RCMP after media leaks at her department Canadian democracy has, we are told, been maliciously undermined at Citizenship and Immigration, and the department&#8217;s top public servant is determined to set things right, on behalf of the Canadian people. 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