Stanley Tromp is the freedom of information caucus coordinator of the Canadian Association of Journalists, or CAJ. He is also the author of “Fallen Behind:  Canada ’s Access to Information Act in the World Context,” published a year ago.

He is a graduate of the University of British Columbia political science department, where he completed the course in International Law.  As a freelance journalist he has made hundreds of FOI requests, and his stories have been published in the Globe and Mail, the Vancouver Sun, and many other publications.   He was nominated for a CAJ award in 1997, and a B.C. Newspaper Foundation award in 1999.  In 2006 and 2009 he gave three oral presentations to the House of Commons and Senate committees considering access to information amendments.   He initiated the FOI caucus of the CAJ at its annual general meeting in 2004, and was one of the founders of the group B.C. Journalists for Freedom of Information (BCJC) in 1998.