Doug Ford’s cellphone records under spotlight ahead of transparency law changes
Doug Ford’s cellphone records under spotlight ahead of transparency law changes
Watchdog says transparency crackdown will make Ontario more secret and less secure
Ontario’s transparency watchdog is pouring cold water on some of the Ford government’s central justifications for clamping down…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/446744/
Watchdog says transparency crackdown will make Ontario more secret and less secure
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://globalnews.ca/news/11740683/ipc-analysis-ontario-foi-changes/
Doug Ford announces new law stating that if you’re an undercover cop you have to tell him
Just to confirm that Labour's relationship with democracy is (shall we say) uneven:
the Govt. is once again (like previous Govt.s) considering constraining & narrowing the scope of Freedom of Information requests, citing cost as the reason, when its more likely linked to such transparency often presented in the Westminster Village as representing a friction that makes governing more difficult.
Of course, they could just be more open & transparent?
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h/t FT
Critics say Ford is ‘flooding the zone’ to distract from transparency controversy
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://globalnews.ca/news/11735233/doug-ford-cellphone-flood-zone-claim/