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.

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    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

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      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.

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          A lot of calls to a certain resort in Florida?

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    In case you didn’t remember the cons still ran Ontario…

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

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    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.