Jack Knox: How a meeting notice turned into a bureaucratic nightmare – Times Colonist
May 28, 2015
How goofy has the control-freak chokehold on the flow of information become in Ottawa?
So goofy that placing a simple meeting notice in a community newspaper became a months-long process requiring the stamp of approval of the prime minister’s office.
Mill Bay’s Jonathan Rayner wrote in with the tale in response to Sunday’s column on Ottawa’s insistence on running even the most apolitical, uncontroversial information through a centralized, political filter before approving its release.
Rayner used to be the communications manager for the federal office responsible for negotiating treaties with B.C. First Nations.
