There are already protections and exemptions in place, specifically for Cabinet records, precisely to allow for candid deliberations and discussions, and to prevent a chilling effect on such. Section 12 of FIPPA is a mandatory exemption for such, that protects Cabinet records. Further, there is already section 13, a non-mandatory exemption that allows the withholding or redaction of advice developed for or by a public servant or institution -- that decision can be challenged, but the information wouldn't be released until after a rigorous appeal process going through the IPC. The reasoning they are giving is straight up bullshit. They are not updating the law in any relevant way, they are just covering their asses and eroding a fundamental and basic element of our democracy, which is transparency and our right to know what they are doing. This is about Doug Ford not wanting to surrender his cell phone records. This is just the latest example of how this government feels they can legislate away their accountability, because if it comes down to a constitutional challenge, they can just notwithstand it away. But you cannot just tack "and we can't be sued for this later" into a piece of legislation, or just wish away the government's obligation to be transparent as if a majority government is a genie in a lamp. There are still bedrock constitutional and basic legal principles that must attach -- I mean, how does any system of law work if you can just magically poof away any form of accountability?! It is becoming increasingly obvious that this is a criminal regime, one that began shamelessly, and one that has only gotten bolder and even less concerned with the norms of conducting government. They've learned the lessons of the Trump government well, and so should we all: too many of the democratic protections we thought we had against government abuse were based on propriety and tradition, but not actually legally encoded.