Former Right-Wing Cabinet Minister Invents New and Exciting Rationale for Government Secrecy

Geoff Plant in the Globe & Mail: government is secret because when we're open people criticize us for our dumb ideas, and that hurts our feelings.

I wish I was kidding.

I think when people Plant's age publish such self-serving piffle it is the height of hypocrisy for his generation to ponder why today's youth are so shallow and self-obsessed.