Williams Government: Now 35% Open and Accountable

Documents tabled in the House of Assembly are now available on the internet for computers. The tabled-documents clearinghouse helpfully informs you:

Tabled documents shall be arranged in chronological order; those which are available online will be hyperlinked.

Of course, you'd be forgiven for naively thinking that they would all be available online:

"A Progressive Conservative government will ... release to the public every government-commissioned report within 30 days of receiving it, indicate the action government will take on a report's recommendations within 60 days, and ensure prompt public access to all government reports in hard copy and on the Internet,"

Some of them — 79 of 223 since October — are now posted up . The rest, presumably, are still set up with the wax-and-strip method, or maybe molten lead-alloy type, and hence are not available online, nice promises notwithstanding.

You'd think those could at least be scanned and posted as .pdf or some such. Depending on your bent, the 2007-08 Activity Plan Office of the Chief Electoral Officer and the Commissioner for Legislative Standards would either be a fascinating read, or a non-chemical solution to insomnia.