Résumé
This report examines Canada’s efforts to balance transparency with secrecy in the national security area. It identifies principles of transparency that animate the Canadian concepts of “open government” and “open courts”, as well as several principles of national security confidentiality — that is, justifications for secrecy predicated on national security preoccupations. It concludes with recommendations to address the structural and practical problems that plague attempts to reconcile transparency and secrecy.