Whatever happened to the Conservatives' 2006 campaign promise to reform the Access to Information Act to provide more accountability? Nothing, in fact - but at least we now know it's not sitting on Vic Toews's desk. The Treasury Board President is the minister responsible for access-to-information, but he's got no plan to live up to the promise.
Here's what he told The Globe and Mail today about where the proposal is not:
Question: Are you going to submit some kind of reform of the Access to Information in terms of one that was promised in the 2006 campaign?
Hon. Vic Toews: Right now I don't have anything on my desk.
Question: Is that a yes or a no?
Hon. Vic Toews: Well, I don't have anything on my desk so I can't really submit anything right now.
Question: So there is no proposal.
Hon. Vic Toews: I can't say that. All I can say there's nothing on my desk.
Question: Does that just mean you're a tidy person or...?
Hon. Vic Toews: Well, I will deal with whatever comes across my desk in the priorities that are established by our government.