Open Government Campaign

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Open Government Campaign

Advocating for stronger laws to require governments to act openly

List of Information/Links on this Page

Documents produced by the Open Government Campaign
Please donate and/or send letter using Action Alert
Please print and use Good Government sticker/door sign
Organizations, join the nation-wide Open Government Coalition by signing on to the 7 Recommendations to Strengthen Canada's Access to Government Information System
Open Government Canada (OGC) July 2001 position paper (OGC was a nation-wide network that advocated from spring 2000 until the end of 2003 for stronger access to government information laws)
Summary of the key OGC proposals: Disclosure Requirements and Information Commissioner Powers Must Increase to Make Access to Information Reform Effective (NOTE: Link takes you to a Democracy Watch news release from November 2004)
Canadian Government Access to Information Websites
Canadian Government Whistleblower Protection Laws and Enforcement Systems

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)

Canadian Government Access to Information Websites

Federal Access to Information Commissioner (oversees the federal government's access-to-information system)
Federal Government Policies for Access to Information
Key Federal and Provincial Government Access-to-Information websites
Site for searching requests made under federal Canadian Access to Information Act
Global Integrity (non-governmental organization that, through an international research effort involving local organizations, individuals and journalists, rates countries good governance and anti-corruption systems and democratic processes)

Canadian Government Whistleblower Protection Laws and Enforcement Systems

Public Sector Integrity Commissioner oversees whistleblower complaints about wrongdoing by federal government employees (known as public servants), under the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act including violations of laws, regulations, codes, policies, guidelines and the following ethics rules for public servants (Disclosure of wrongdoing database):

Values and Ethics Code for the Public Service (apply to employees of the federal government) -- For more details, see also the federal Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat's Office of the Chief Human Resources Officer and their Values and Ethics webpage

Province of Ontario's Integrity Commissioner -- government whistleblower protection webpage
Province of Manitoba information page -- government whistleblower protection information

Page last updated March 6, 2010

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