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    Doug Ford sagt, dass seine Handyaufzeichnungen zum Schutz der Privatsphäre geheim bleiben müssen


    Doug Ford sagt, dass seine Handyaufzeichnungen zum Schutz der Privatsphäre geheim bleiben müssen

    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-doug-ford-foi-cell-phone-records-privacy/

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    1. cyclinginvancouver on

      >Ontario Premier Doug Ford is defending his government’s decision to exempt him and his cabinet ministers from freedom of information requests, and said he needs to keep his personal cellphone records hidden to protect the privacy of private citizens who contact him.

      >Mr. Ford commented for the first time Monday on his government’s announcement last week that the Premier, cabinet ministers and their offices would no longer be subject to freedom of information requests and will be able to keep documents and e-mails about their decision-making secret.

      >It also means the Premier’s cellphone records, which the government had been fighting in court to keep private, will remain shielded from the public.

      >Mr. Ford regularly gives out his phone number at public events and said thousands of people text and call him expecting discretion.

      >“I was sworn to confidentiality for constituents, and I’m not going to release personal, confidential information about people’s lives. That’s what it comes down to,” Mr. Ford said at an announcement in Brockville, Ont., about a new correctional facility.

      >“I have an idea. Judge me or judge our party on decisions, not on conversations that we have in a cabinet office or conversations that people trust that you are not going to release.”

      >On Monday, Mr. Ford repeated his government’s reasoning that the proposed changes are needed to update the “antiquated” 40-year-old legislation to ensure cabinet ministers can have frank conversations about policy decisions in confidence.

      >He said the changes also align with policies at the federal level and in most provinces. Opposition parties and other critics, however, have decried the move and said it is an attempt to shield the government from scrutiny and accountability.

      >The proposed changes follow the government’s loss in a court battle over the call logs from Mr. Ford’s personal cellphone, which he uses for government business. A court in January sided with the province’s Information and Privacy Commissioner and ordered the records released, but the government had said it would appeal.

      >Mr. Ford on Monday said he receives a thousand calls a day and has thousands of unread text messages.

      >“Every personal problem people have, they call me. I feel like a psychologist every day trying to solve everyone’s personal issues. That is not good to release it,” he said.

      >Stephen Crawford, Ontario’s Minister of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement, said the government also intends to address predatory information-gathering from foreign countries and companies, which Mr. Ford suggested comes from China.

      >“We’ve got to protect ourselves against the Communist Chinese that are infiltrating our country, Canada, the U.S., everything, into our education system, into high-tech companies. That’s who we have to protect,” Mr. Ford said.

      >Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles said Mr. Ford is coming up with “ridiculous excuses” to justify his changes to the FOI system.

      >“The Premier isn’t worried about China, he is worried about what the people of Ontario will see when his phone records are released,” she said in a statement Monday.

      >“This is democratic backsliding, plain and simple. The Premier is making every excuse under the sun to justify changing the rules so he and his Cabinet can hide from public accountability.”

    2. cyclinginvancouver on

      >If passed, the legislation, to be introduced in the spring, would quash existing and future requests for any document held in the Premier’s office and the offices of any of his cabinet ministers, such as their e-mails, internal memos and meeting schedules.

      >The proposed exemptions would also cover offices of MPPs who serve as parliamentary assistants, a group that includes all but a handful of the 79 Progressive Conservative MPPs.

      >The changes could also affect other access to information battles launched by media outlets, advocacy groups or the opposition. One of them involves a political staffer’s messages related to the government’s aborted attempt to remove land owned by a handful of connected developers from its protected Greenbelt, an affair that is subject to an RCMP probe.

      >Ontario’s freedom of information watchdog condemned the exemptions. In a statement last week, Information and Privacy Commissioner Patricia Kosseim called the proposal “shocking” and “alarming.” Noting that existing rules protect personal and confidential information, she said the change is “about hiding government-related business to evade public accountability.”

      >And she linked the move to Mr. Ford’s phone-records case: “By changing the law retroactively, the government’s message is plain: if oversight bodies get in the way, just change the rules.”

    4. Affinity4Constructs on

      Buddy you’re not Trump and can self-pardon and stack agencies the way you like to avoid prosecution in the future. 

      If you’re going to act like Tony, the least you could do is be funny and let us laugh at your downfall.

    5. Filbert17 on

      Dougie, You chose this job knowing that you needed to share. Don’t like it, get a new job.

    7. RefrigeratorOk648 on

      „If you have nothing to hide you should not be worried.“

      So say politicians who want to pass laws allowing access to your phone records.

    10. SkinnedIt on

      You should have thought of that before using your personal device for public business, fool.

      Come on, how TF did he not realize that was a bad idea? This cannot be allowed to proceed.

      I’d bet he hasn’t even requested *information* on obtaining a government managed phone since his cell phone records were requested.

    11. Ratroddadeo on

      We need to make sure this does not happen, by whatever means we have at our disposal, like protests/sit ins at Queens Park, his office, even general strikes aimed at paralyzing gov’t business at every level.

      He KNOWS we know he is corrupt, and this is nothing more than a blatant cover-up.

    12. JadeLens on

      If you do the job on your home cell phone, then those records should be open to people investigating fraud.

    14. lIlIllIIlIIl on

      The man who doesn’t use a laptop also doesn’t know how to carry two phones? Fuck you Dougie.

    16. BabadookOfEarl on

      I don’t know why people are assuming it’s drug deals instead of bribes from developers.

    17. Ok_Understanding5320 on

      While they are happy letting companies sell off our data to anyone who’s willing to buy, but yeah need your privacy.

    18. not-your-mom-123 on

      To protecting his corrupt behind, he means. All those deals with construction buddies, donors, casinos, etc. Oh no, we sure don’t need to hear about those.

      How many more court cases is he going to lose before the province goes vroke? You know he will lose this one – no chance in Hell the Supreme Court will go along with this cover-up.

    20. Alecto7374 on

      The fact that this is even up for discussion is baffling to me. If you represent the people, then the people have every right to know the goings on directly affecting us. HE is supposed to serve US.

    21. Boisyno on

      This actually made me laugh, there’s no ways this isn’t a beavertown article right?

    22. adwrx on

      This guy is a fking joke! Should have thought about the before becoming a public servant!

    23. dariusCubed on

      Or maybe Ford doesn’t want to admit he gets private calls from *Tony Soprano* for construction projects.

    24. Organic_Hamster_2961 on

      This might be a controversial opinion but I don’t actually care if Marit Stiles is charismatic or effective at messaging. She isn’t a corrupt POS. I don’t need a party leader who is entertaining or world famous for having a crackhead brother I just want to have a family doctor again.

    25. Morganvegas on

      Lmao if this man isn’t smart enough to have a burner for his backroom dealings than he isn’t fit enough to run the province.

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