Basically every time we get a new party taking over to form our government they ride in on a promise of being more open, transparent and accountable.

... only to backtrack on those promises a few years later.

So the fact that the Liberals have abandoned their promise on openess and transparency isn't surprising, but the speed at which they have abandoned such promises and the fact that they haven't implemented any meaningful improvements to offset what they've made worse is quite concerning.

Harper's Conservatives were hardly the poster child for openess or transparency, but at least they spent their first 2 or so years in power making things better (eg. with the creation of the PBO and other aspects included in the Federal Accountability Act) before pulling back and closing doors.