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Democracy Watch has
released the following documents in its Open Government Campaign
(in reverse chronological order):
- WEBSITE ARTICLE: Supreme
Court
of Canada, not one former Supreme justice, should rule on
disclosure of documents about Afghan detainees (CBC.ca (Inside
Politics blog), March 5, 2010) -- To
see related National Post
blog posting, click
here
- NEWS RELEASE: Canadian
Federal
Government
Far
From
Owning
the Podium on Democracy and
Government Accountability -- Drops to 11th in Global
Integrity's New Annual Report -- Another Accountability Act Needed
(March 1, 2010)
- YouTUBE VIDEO: Duff Conacher on how
to resolve the dispute over the disclosure of all documents about
Afghan detainees (StraightGoods.ca, March 1, 2010) -- To see related website article, click
here
- WEBSITE ARTICLE: Federal
Conservative
Minister
of
Democratic
Reform refuses to make his briefing
book public (Winnipeg Free Press,
Canada.com
and
11
CanWest
News Service newspapers across Canada,
February 13, 2010)
- NEWS RELEASE: Democracy
Watch
Calls
on
Federal
Conservatives
and
Opposition
MPs to Refer Afghan
Detainee Document and Committee Testimony Disclosure Issues to Supreme
Court of Canada for Ruling (February 10, 2010) -- To see related article in Le Devoir (in French), click
here
- RADIO PIECE: Examination
of
the
federal
Conservatives'
democratic
reform
and accountability
record featuring Democracy Watch Coordinator Duff Conacher (CBC
Radio's The Current, February 4, 2010 -- or click
here and then click on link to Part 3 of the show) -- To see Democracy Watch's Report Card
on the Conservatives' record, click
here
- WEBSITE ARTICLE: Ontario
judges
hold
unjustifiably
secret
training
session
on
trial
management
issues (Toronto Star,
February 4, 2010)
- WEBSITE ARTICLE: As
Democracy
Watch
has
detailed
in
many
reports
over
the
past
16
years,
no
ruling party, nor Parliament overall, has done enough to reduce the
federal government's democratic deficit (Lawrence Martin's column, Globe and Mail, January 28, 2010)
-- To see some of Democracy
Watch's recent reports, click
here
- NEWS RELEASE: Federal
Conservatives'
Accountability
and
Democratic
Reform
Record
Earns
Only
an
"E"
Grade
For
Breaking
Many Promises and Practising Politics As
Usual -- Three Years After Federal
Accountability
Act Became Law, Dishonesty, Conflicts of
Interest, Excessive Secrecy,
Unlimited
Donations and Patronage All Still Legal -- Another, Stronger
Accountability
Act Needed (December 16, 2009)
- NEWS RELEASE: Ontario
Liberals
Reject
Good
Government
Amendments
to
Their
"Bad
Government
Act"
-- Dishonesty,
Secret Unlimited Donations, Secret Lobbying, Excessive Secrecy and
Conflicts
of Interest Still Allowed, and Independence of Public Inquiries
Undermined (December 3, 2009) -- To hear related interview on CIUT
Toronto's "Take Five" morning show, click
here (NOTE: The interview starts starts at the 3:30 min. mark of
the show, and ends at the 15:30 min. mark of the show)
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