Link: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ontario-freedom-of-information-requests-premier-cabinet/

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.

What's he hiding?

@Sharkticon @BuoyantCitrus isn't *

Yup, that's exactly what a corrupt politician would do

If our taxes are paying you we have a right to know.

The exemptions would be retroactive

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

I'm putting my money on kickbacks relating to Ontario Place.

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.

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.

you'll never know.

or the RCMP Greenbelt investigation..LOL.. as if.

they guy yelling at people to get a job?

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.

The proposed changes follow the government’s loss of a court battle, initially launched by Global News, over the call logs for Premier Doug Ford’s personal cellphone, which he uses for government business.

More like, "I should be able to do whatever gets me what i want."

Yeah. Must be something real juicy in those call logs

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?

His Basket Weaving PhD.

"Ontario still sliding towards authoritarianism", this and other obvious news at 5.

So much corruption.

In case you didn't remember the cons still ran Ontario...

Anyone that thinks their phone calls are private really needs to look into the reality of the situation

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.

Oh you bet it's sex appeal

https://globalnews.ca/news/11730292/transparency-watchdog-blasts-ontario-plan-hide-premier-cellphone/

Another nice article on the matter.

Through the process, the government has admitted Ford uses his personal phone for government business, but argued it would be an invasion of his privacy to release it.

Then don't do public business on a private device.

Still run. And still have a majority, got a third straight one last year.

A lot of calls to a certain resort in Florida?

Nah Canada isn't going to have different rules for different classes sorry.

Can't spell corruption without an o, p, and c.

Fucking laughable, we already do

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?

Not a law yet, technically.

Do you have specific examples? Or is this a commentary on just how much you can afford to spend on a legal team?

Anyone with "generational trauma"?