Brokering Access

Foreword / Ann Cavoukian

Introduction: On the Politics of Access to Information / Mike Larsen and Kevin Walby

Part 1: Access to Information, Past and Present

1 Sustaining Secrecy: Executive Branch Resistance to Access to Information in Canada / Ann Rees

2 Access Regimes: Provincial Freedom of Information Law across Canada / Gary Dickson

Part 2: Behind Closed Doors -- Security and Information Control

3 Flying the Secret Skies: Difficulties in Obtaining Data on Canadian Airport Security Screening Tests Following 9/11 / Jim Bronskill

4 Access to Information in an Age of Intelligencized Governmentality  / Willem de Lint and Reem Bahdi

5 Accessing Dirty Data: Methodological Strategies for Social Problems Research  / Yavar Hameed and Jeff Monaghan

Part 3: Access to Information and Critical Research Strategies

6 The Freedom of Information Act as a Methodological Tool: Suing the Government for Data / Matthew G. Yeager

7 “He who controls the present, controls the past”: The Canadian Security State’s Imperfect Censorship under the Access to Information Act / Steve Hewitt

8 Behind the Blue Line: Using ATI in Researching the Policing of Aboriginal Activism / Tia Dafnos

9 Accessing the State of Imprisonment in Canada: Information Barriers and Negotiation Strategies
/ Justin Piché

10 Accessing Information on Streetscape Video Surveillance in Canada / Sean P. Hier

Part 4: Dispatches from the Fourth Estate -- Access to Information and Investigative Journalism

11 Access, Administration, and Democratic Intent / Fred Vallance-Jones

12 Access to Information: The Frustrations -- and the Hope / David McKie

13 The Quest for Electronic Data: Where Alice Meets Monty Python Meets Colonel Jessep / Jim Rankin

Postscript / Suzanne Legault

Index