I was pleased to be invited to be a panelist for one of the sessions that will be part of the “Right To Know” conference, to be held Sept. 28-Oct. 1 and organized by the Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada.
It's all part of Right To Know Week across the country.
There's lots of great sessions for those interested in this important issue.
My session will be on Monday, Sept. 28 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The conference will be held at the Canadian War Museum here in the nation's capital.
Suzanne Legault, the interim information commissioner, will make some opening remarks before my panel discussion which is centred on “Citizens' Engagement and State Accountability.” My good friends David McKie of CBC Radio and Jeff Sallot, now of Carleton University and formerly of The Globe and Mail, will also be on the panel. We'll be joined by Andy Kaplan-Myrth, a lawyer and VP of VisibleGovernment.ca, Ben Leapman, one of the journalists who contributed to the (UK) Daily Telegraph's terrific work on unearthing the outrageous expenses of British parliamentarians, Kerry Pither, a human rights and civil liberties advocate. Lucy van Oldenbarneveld, host of CBC News at Six in Ottawa, will be moderating the panel.
The conference is free! So please tell one and all about it.