From the "Most Transparent" Government in the Country's History

The Canadian people do NOT have the right to know anything, apparently:

🚨The Liberals are shutting down debate on their own censorship bill.

Bill C-9 will not stop the attacks we’ve seen against Jewish Canadians or places of worship across this country. Canadians want real leadership against rising anti-Semitism — not rushed legislation and… pic.twitter.com/WUav2Yvxjx

— Larry Brock (@LarryBrockMP) March 9, 2026

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Immigration Minister Lena Diab’s office yesterday declined comment over its refusal to speak to independent media. Only newsrooms that meet criteria for government approval will be granted questions, according to a Department of Immigration notice: “The department must be satisfied.”

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The federal Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations has redacted nearly all details from internal reports describing how a B.C. First Nation spent millions in taxpayer funding intended to locate alleged graves of children at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.

Blacklock's Reporter says documents released under the Access to Information Act show the department labelled the reports “confidential,” concealing details about work undertaken by the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation after Ottawa provided $12.1 million to support searches tied to claims that 215 children were buried on the site.

The reports, filed in 2023, were requested to determine what activities were completed as part of the federally funded effort to identify burial sites.

However, all substantive material was blacked out by the department.

The funding was originally provided to “coordinate engagement, investigation and commemoration activities related to the 215 missing children and burial sites.”

By the time the reports were filed, the First Nation had already received $8,394,166 of the total grant.

Federal officials cited multiple sections of the Access to Information Act to justify withholding the details, including provisions covering personal information, confidential technical data and material supplied in confidence by third parties.

The department also said disclosure could interfere with contractual or other negotiations.

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Canada’s former budget watchdog Yves Giroux says the government’s failure to appoint a new parliamentary budget officer after both his and his interim successor’s terms expired is a “conscious decision” to silence the office and prevent it from holding the government accountable.

Jason Jacques’ six-month term as the interim Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) ended on March 2 without Prime Minister Mark Carney’s (Nepean, Ont.) government appointing a successor. It’s the second time the Liberals have put off making a permanent appointment, after Giroux’s term expired in September 2025.

Giroux, who left after completing a seven-year term, said this shows the government is “not concerned at all” with this position being empty. 

“The position being vacant means that the office cannot answer MPs’ or committees’ requests, and they cannot publish anything. So, de facto, it means that, for parliamentarians, the office is shut down, and it means the same thing for the media and Canadians because the longer the position remains empty, the longer the PBO or the office cannot publish anything,” he told The Hill Times in a March 2 interview.