Ontario bringt Gesetzentwurf ein, der das Kabinett des Ministerpräsidenten von FOI-Anfragen befreit
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ontario-freedom-of-information-requests-premier-cabinet/
Ontario bringt Gesetzentwurf ein, der das Kabinett des Ministerpräsidenten von FOI-Anfragen befreit
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ontario-freedom-of-information-requests-premier-cabinet/
9 Kommentare
I’m trying to see the “public good” in this proposal. It seems to me that this is only intended to limit public knowledge of things like “why are we selling off the green belt” and “what was the process to determine who should own Ontario Place” or “why does Porter do so well and how can we make that not be the case”.
Hopefully this bill fails, but with Ontario apparently happy with continuing to hand these guys a majority government, I’m guessing it’ll pass and that will be the last we hear of any important decision.
At this point, it feels like Marit Stiles might as well start modelling herself after anti-corruption figures like **Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya** or the late **Alexei Navalny** for political inspiration instead of just Zoran Mamdani. While Ontario obviously isn’t Belarus or Russia, the *tactics* being used here are uncomfortably familiar: when a court rules against you (like the ruling on Ford’s personal cell logs), you don’t comply with the law; you simply rewrite the law to ensure you are never accountable to it again.
Exempting the executive branch from transparency after a significant legal defeat (Global News v. Ontario) isn’t just ‚modernizing‘ to match other provinces, it’s a calculated effort to ensure that ‚decision-making‘ remains a private matter for ‚friends and family‘ rather than a public service. If the government can choose exactly what we are allowed to know, then the concept of an ‚informed electorate‘ becomes a relic of the past.
Secrecy isn’t a byproduct of this legislation; it’s the primary feature. We should be very concerned when a government decides that the only people who don’t need to be transparent are the ones making the most consequential decisions for the province.
I think the only reason why a government would do this, is if they had something to hide.
Considering the RCMP investigation into Doug Ford taking envelopes full of cash, I believe that Doug Ford is corrupt.
I believe that if we do not hold the Ontario conservative government accountable we will end up in a Donald Trump situation
Releasing this on a Friday as war in the Middle East causes massive economic uncertainty is just a massive middle finger to Ontario courtesy of the corrupt Ford government.
Let’s go the other way. Make everything public by default, and let them argue before a tribunal when they want an exception.
This is ridiculous. Our governments and FOI system are already incredibly weak and slow as is. It’s kinda ironic that in the US you can get so much more info and quicker with their system than we can.
We recently had a thread about changes to the federal legislation and someone brought up Doug Ford, and I thought „you just know he’s got something waiting“. Well, here it is.
Okay that just sounds like you have something to hide. What logical reason could the government possibly have to want to table this bill? What is Ford trying to hide here?
There must be some pretty bad stuff in there, and I suspect they will delete the records upon leaving office. If they do not, there is no reason that the next premier cannot just release everything day 1.