It is an issue about being given the proper tools to debate and challenge assumptions, a necessary and critical part of any free society. While more information increases the probability of a better decision, it does not guarantee a wise one. Men may take the information and still draw the wrong conclusions. Some conclusions drawn from statistics are often criticized for this very reason. Despite access to some information, one may not yet have all that one needs and one may never have enough information.
Liberal democracies are imperfect because men and women are imperfect.
The scientific certainty within a lab can rarely be replicated outside of it. But such information, even fragmented, is still valuable. For example, the CTF's federal director Walter Robinson, spent eight months trying to obtain information about business subsidies to some of Canada's largest companies. The CTF wanted to know how much money had been lent out, what had been paid back, how much taxpayers could yet expect to receive, how much was going to be lost forever, and what were the repayment terms. In another program, where repayments were conditional upon profits, we found wildly optimistic assumptions and terms so porous that one could fly a squadron of jets through the loopholes.