Access to documents from government are one thing.
Understanding what they say is quite another.
CBC requested batches of documents from the provincial government about efforts by the people of Little Bay Islands to relocate from their isolated community to other places.
“No government money in budget for rural relocation program” ran the headline on the story last week. The sub-head claimed there was “no way to pay up-front costs” of relocation.
Unfortunately for the folks at CBC, the documents didn’t say that.