The Liberal government is looking at ways to pry open Canada’s neglected national security vaults, possibly through the creation of a centre to declassify historical documents, a newly released memo reveals.
But getting federal departments to unseal large numbers of secret records “will be a challenge without an overarching policy and resources,” concedes the internal note prepared earlier this year for the deputy minister of Public Safety Canada.
The Canadian Press obtained a copy of the memo through the Access to Information Act.
Canada’s key intelligence allies have policies and…
