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I was recently listening to a Radiolab podcast on the history of the phrase "can neither confirm nor deny", formally known as the "Glomar Response". If you have not yet heard this episode, I highly recommend it.

It is a perennial problem in Canada that municipal, provincial, and federal government agencies disclose records under Access to Information (ATI)/Freedom of Information (FOI) law in non-machine readable (image) formats by default.