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| wdt_ID | Details | Author | Date of Publication | Media Outlet | Title | Category Name | Story summary |
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| 1 | More details | Staff | 10/03/1984 | Canadian Press | Plurality favors metric conversion Half of West wants bilingualism: poll | POLITICAL AFFAIRS | A 1982 poll for the federal Government found that 50 per cent of Westerners believed Canada should be bilingual and almost as many said metric conversion "will be worth it in the long run." The survey also suggests there was substantial support at the time for Ottawa's controversial changes to Western freight rates, with 37.5 per cent saying they would stimulate economic development in the West and 23.6 per cent thinking it would not. The $34,000 poll was conducted for the federal Canadian Unity Information Office by Can-West Survey Research of Winnipeg, with a copy obtained under the ATI Act. |
| 2 | More details | Kirk LaPointe | 05/01/1985 | Globe and Mail | Conduct defended CRTC chief's role concerns industry | POLITICAL AFFAIRS | The new chairman of the federal broadcast regulator takes part in a meeting at which the fortunes of his former company are improved by a decision some say is unusual. Was his conduct proper? Yes, says Andre Bureau, chairman of the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission and former president of Canadian Satellite Communications Inc. Broadcasters and a former CRTC official familiar with Bureau's actions question what he did..... A document obtained under the ATIA says Bureau was present when the CRTC executive committee met early last year and decided to allow a Saskatchewan cable company to carry two U.S. TV signals from CanCom. |
| 3 | More details | Staff | 12/11/1985 | Canadian Press | Trade doesn’t top priority list, poll says | POLITICAL AFFAIRS | Most Canadians believe Prime Minister Brian Mulroney is wrong to push economic issues – notably freer trade – as the country’s top foreign policy priority, a government poll indicates. World poverty, hunger and the arms race are the top foreign concerns for an overwhelming majority of Canadians, obtained by the Toronto Star via the ATIA. The survey, conducted by Mulroney’s private pollster, also suggests few Canadians believe the Progressive Conservative government is listening to their concerns. |
| 4 | More details | Peter Calamai | 06/05/1986 | Southam News | Acid rain lobbyist has got his money | POLITICAL AFFAIRS | Former White House aide Michel Deaver has already received his full $100,000 payment for lobbying Washington power-brokers on Canada’s behalf, more than two months before the end of a controversial one-year contract that ahs prompted an official conflict-of-interest investigation by U.S. officials. A copy of the contract was released by external affairs to Southam News under the ATIA. It is in the form of a Sept. 6 letter to Deaver from Allan Gotlieb, Canada’s ambassador to the U.S. |
| 5 | More details | Staff | 21/05/1986 | Canadian Press | {*} Secret freer trade studies going public | POLITICAL AFFAIRS | Some of the government’s secret freer trade studies will be made public, probably later this week, the international trade minister said. The government has consistently refused to make any of the studies it has commissioned on the impact of a freer trade deal with the U.S., saying it didn’t want to tip its negotiating strategy. The minister did not say why the government changed its mind, nor whether it had anything to do with the information commissioner going to court over its refusal to release the studies under the ATI Act. |
| 6 | More details | Staff | 07/11/1986 | Canadian Press | Quebec gets major share of development funding | POLITICAL AFFAIRS | Quebec has been awarded the lion’s share of regional development dollars since Prime Minister’s Conservatives won a landslide victory two years ago. Documents obtained through the ATIA show that province received more than $421 million in assistance from the Department of Regional and Industrial Expansion between September 1984 and March this year. Newfoundland, with the highest unemployment rate in the country, received $10 million. |
| 7 | More details | Editorial | 07/12/1986 | Times Colonist (Victoria) | Act says nothing about filtering dirt | POLITICAL AFFAIRS | ‘The ATIA gives Canadians the right to examine or obtain copies of records of federal agencies. It doesn’t say anything about someone in the PMO first looking over any material which might embarrass Prime Minister Mulroney before it is released. Yet that has been the practice…. The final irony: the privy council clerk’s letter which reveals this tawdry affair was obtained under – you guessed it – the [ATIA].’ |
| 8 | More details | Graham Fraser | 03/02/1987 | Globe and Mail | Bazin should delay Senate post over Oerlikon role, Liberal says | POLITICAL AFFAIRS | On the eve of Jean Bazin 's swearing-in as a senator, the Montreal lawyer's role with Oerlikon Aerospace Inc. was still being debated in the House of Commons.... Through an application under the ATIA, The Globe obtained Ottawa's evaluation of the seven bids for the $600-million low-level air defence contract. It ranks the bidders on such criteria as engineering and technical capabilities, financial and project management, cost evaluations and socio-economic benefits. But all information dealing with the analysis, ranking, recommendations and summaries of the bids has been exempted from the information made public by the Department of National Defence. The Globe has filed a complaint about the exempted material with the Information Commissioner. |
| 9 | More details | Stephen Bindman | 13/07/1987 | Ottawa Citizen | Papers leaked to discredit minister, probe suggests | POLITICAL AFFAIRS | A six-week, $18,000 investigation has concluded secret Immigration Department documents may have been leaked to the media to destroy the credibility of the junior immigration minister. Although the investigation failed to determine who gave the records to a Toronto newspaper reporter, two retired detectives suggest it may have been public servants upset because rookie cabinet minister Gerry Weiner overruled department officials on several controversial decisions. "There appears to be a strong rift or a feeling of mutual distrust between the departmental staff within the immigration branch and the staff within the minister's office," say former RCMP inspector Marcel Sauve and Canadian Forces security officer Terry Kelly. A copy of their 1986 report was obtained by the Citizen under the ATIA. |
| 10 | More details | Jeff Sallot | 06/01/1988 | Globe and Mail | Ottawa didn't need own experts' advice on CF-18 contract | POLITICAL AFFAIRS | After 15 months of delay, the Department of National Defence released documents showing that the cabinet rejected the advice of government experts by awarding a military aircraft maintenance contract to a Quebec firm. Canadair Ltd. of Montreal got the contract over a cheaper and technically superior bid by the Winnipeg-based Bristol Aerospace Ltd. consortium, documents show. Opponents of the Government expect the belated disclosure to rekindle the long-dormant political controversy over the awarding of the CF-18 fighter maintenance contract. It took The Globe almost 15 months to obtain the documents under the ATIA. Defence officials delayed the release of the documents because they said they needed time to consult other departments involved in the evaluation. |