cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/61737959
The utter audacity of this.
The exemptions would be retroactive, meaning all existing, outstanding requests for information from these offices would be scrapped, including Mr. Ford’s phone logs.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/61737959
The utter audacity of this.
The exemptions would be retroactive, meaning all existing, outstanding requests for information from these offices would be scrapped, including Mr. Ford’s phone logs.
33 Comments
kat_angstrom@lemmy.world · 63 pts · 149d
Yup, that's exactly what a corrupt politician would do
a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca · 31 pts · 149d
Makes me think that they must have got wind of a FOI request that requests some info that they really don’t want to get out
BuoyantCitrus@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 149d
a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 149d
Yeah. Must be something real juicy in those call logs
kent_eh@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 148d
A lot of calls to a certain resort in Florida?
MacroCyclo@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 148d
Anyone that thinks their phone calls are private really needs to look into the reality of the situation
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 149d
I'm putting my money on kickbacks relating to Ontario Place.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 149d
or the RCMP Greenbelt investigation..LOL.. as if.
minorkeys@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 149d
So they can hide wrongdoing and incompetence. Absolutely insane when right wingers demand shit like this. It's anti democratic and ensures increases in wrongdoing and incompetence.
DCinBC@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 148d
That’s like… that’s like an open admission that they plan to do corrupt things.
I mean imagine if your contractor said, “Well, I’d like to do this job for you but I want you to agree that you don’t need a quote and you won’t hire an inspector to check my work.” Or if your dealer at a casino said “Let me just deal the hands out behind this screen here where you can’t see what I’m doing, trust me bro.”
Transparency is the only thing that keeps politicians or business people honest.
When they openly say they don’t want transparency, they are telling us that they plan to be dishonest. It’s that simple.
Sharkticon@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 149d
What's he hiding?
veeesix@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 148d
His Basket Weaving PhD.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 149d
you'll never know.
mpp@mstdn.social · 2 pts · 149d
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 148d
In case you didn't remember the cons still ran Ontario...
twopi@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 148d
Still run. And still have a majority, got a third straight one last year.
tehWrapper@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 149d
If our taxes are paying you we have a right to know.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 149d
they guy yelling at people to get a job?
Undearius@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 148d
Then don't do public business on a private device.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 149d
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
minorkeys@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 149d
More like, "I should be able to do whatever gets me what i want."
DarylInCanada@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 147d
ieGod@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 147d
Not a law yet, technically.
tehWrapper@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 148d
https://globalnews.ca/news/11730292/transparency-watchdog-blasts-ontario-plan-hide-premier-cellphone/
Another nice article on the matter.
ZC3rr0r@piefed.ca · 9 pts · 148d
"Ontario still sliding towards authoritarianism", this and other obvious news at 5.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 148d
So much corruption.
ivanvector@piefed.ca · 8 pts · 149d
There is obviously something bad that has already been identified by an FOI request that they don't want to be made public. There's no other conceivable reason to do this at all, and there is no possible way this can be of any benefit to taxpayers or residents of Ontario at all.
mister_newbie@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 147d
Can't spell corruption without an o, p, and c.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 149d
we have to see who in the press asked for an FOI and what about.
But FFS Ontario, what do you see in this guy? Is is sex appeal?
MacroCyclo@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 148d
Oh you bet it's sex appeal
betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 148d
Jarix@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 147d
Fucking laughable, we already do
ieGod@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 147d
Do you have specific examples? Or is this a commentary on just how much you can afford to spend on a legal team?
maplesaga@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 146d
Anyone with "generational trauma"?
ieGod@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 144d
So maybe I'm very misinformed, but I'm unsure how this is an example of different rules. Care to elaborate? I can generously grant that social pressure/policy/issues don't provide supports but the legal framework doesn't to my knowledge favour any one class (aside from how much you want to spend on a legal team), and further, such effects are often taken into consideration by judges (if and when it gets that far).
Soup@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 147d
Who’s gunna stop them, another sub-50% voter turnout because the Canadian electorate ranges from insane conservative morons to completely uninformed “moderates” with only a small amount of progressives who often get easily scared into letting the center and right get away with shit like this?