Next month, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's unfulfilled promise to strengthen Canada's access-to-information laws will be five years old.

The pledge stands out among the Conservative pledges made during the 2005-06 election campaign that brought Mr. Harper to power, because most have since been checked off. The Harper government's first piece of legislation was a broad package of accountability rules, yet stronger access laws were left for another day.

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