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Canadian Government Drafts New 3-Year Open Government Plan [1]

June 22, 2016

Canada's federal government has drafted a plan for improving its transparency and openness — and is inviting comments before a June 30, 2016, deadline.

The draft plan has been published online here. [2]

The plan is partly a response to the international project called the Open Government Partnership. [3] While the current draft plan is for 2016-2018, previous versions of the plan [4] were for 2014-2016 and 2012-2014.

Overall goals of the new draft plan are to make all government data and information open by default and to eliminate all fees except for an initial $5 filing fee.

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[1] https://www.sej.org/publications/watchdog-tipsheet/canadian-government-drafts-new-3-year-open-government-plan [2] http://open.canada.ca/en/consultations/canadas-new-plan-open-government-2016-2018 [3] http://www.opengovpartnership.org/ [4] http://open.canada.ca/en/consultations/background-materials-action-plan-open-government-2016-18 [5] https://www.sej.org/category/sej-publication/watchdog-tipsheet [6] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/laws [7] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/canada [8] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81