"...a very dangerous precedent"

Yes, making things disappear because we don't want people finding shit out is pretty dangerous.  We should know that.

 

Eventually, people make a party out of embracing ignorance and destroying information.  Children begin to view any kind of information - except that approved by The Party - as corrupting.  Damn academics, statisticians, scientists!  Pretentious types, elitists, the whole lot, bunch of latte drinking commies...

Ignorant people are easier to control.  Lack of resources to research policy lets The Party make up their own pseudo-facts and figures.

The federal bill introduced last month would halt registration of long guns and permanently delete more than seven million files on gun ownership. It would override provisions of the Library and Archives of Canada Act and the Privacy Act to allow for destruction of the records.

The Association of Canadian Archivists recently wrote to Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, arguing that destroying records for "political expediency" and ignoring existing legislation "sets a very dangerous precedent for future legislation and record-keeping practices."

"He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future." 
                                                                                                                                                - Orwell