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Trudeau the populist?

As former U.S. president Lyndon Johnson once said, 'You have to be a demagogue on a lot of little things if you want to be around to have your way on the big things.'

Opinion
BY GERRY NICHOLLS
September 28, 2023

Opinion | BY GERRY NICHOLLS | September 28, 2023

OTTAWA—Canada’s broken access to information system has increasingly become entrenched, complete with backlog specialists and a new information commissioner facing her office’s own backlog.

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