Remedial reading is a wonderful thing.

If you go back and read the column carefully, you will realize that Fife and Chase wrote no such thing.

They said the government would lift the veil of secrecy not that it would discontinue the practice.

As for the headline, these are written by others not by the columnists or reporters.

And headline writers are prone to go for the sensational headline and to sometimes be less than accurate (think National Enquirer front age)

Long ago when dinosaurs still roamed the earth, I wrote an op-ed piece about mismanagement, its causes and cures, at the senior executive level of the federal public service.  Being cute, the headline writer wrote, "Capital Punishment:  Its Time Ottawa Changed Its Ways".  As an opponent of actual capital punishment, I was not amused.

In any event, this move was a clever diversionary ploy by the Liberals to confuse low information voters who only read the headlines.