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Honesty in Politics Campaign
Advocating for a strict, easily accessible and effective
system to penalize election candidates, politicians, government
and political party officials who mislead the public (including by
switching parties
between elections).
honest - 1. fair and just in character or
behaviour, not cheating or stealing 2. free of deceit and
untruthfulness,
sincere 3. fairly earned (an honest living)
honesty - 1. the quality of being honest
2. truthfulness
(Source: The Canadian Oxford Dictionary:
Oxford University Press)
They say "honesty in the best policy" -- you can help make
politics an honest living by:
Democracy Watch Coordinator on
need for honesty-in-politics law
(YouTube video)
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Democracy Watch has released
the following documents in
its
Honesty in Politics Campaign
(in reverse chronological order):
- RADIO PHONE-IN SHOW: Democracy
Watch
Coordinator
Duff
Conacher
on
the
loopholes
and
flaws
in
Canada's
democracy (CBC Maritime Noon phone-in show (starts 20 min. into
show), July 15, 2010)
- WEBSITE ARTICLE: New
Brunswick
coalition
pushes provincial parties to promise
honesty-in-politics law in fall election platforms (New Brunswick
Telegraph Journal, June 30, 2010)
- WEBSITE ARTICLE: New
Brunswick
Conservatives
promise
dozens
of democratic reforms, but
details needed (New Brunswick
Telegraph Journal, June 26, 2010)
- NEWS RELEASE: CSIS
Director's Disclosure of Foreign Influence Over Canadian Government
Officials Yet Another Reason To Ban Secret, Unethical Donations and
Lobbying Across Canada -- If
politicians across Canada do not close
loopholes and strengthen enforcement, corruption of governments will
continue to be easy (June 23, 2010)
- LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Federal
Conservatives broke their 2006 election promises on open government,
but opposition parties also to blame for ongoing government secrecy
(Globe and Mail, June 19,
2010, Hill Times, June 28,
2010)
- OP-ED: Oliphant
Commission and recent scandals show clear need for another Federal
Accountability Act (Rabble.ca, June 16, 2010, Hill Times, June 21, 2010,
TheMarkNews.com, June 23, 2010)
- NEWS RELEASE: Justice
Oliphant
Recommends
Closing
Only
4
of
More
Than
20
Loopholes
in
Ethics
Rules
For Cabinet Ministers and Senior Government Officials, and
Correcting 14 of More Than 20 Flaws in Ethics Enforcement System -- Commission ignores many loopholes that allow
for secret donations and lobbying and unethical actions by others in
federal politics (May 31,
2010)
-- NOTE: Covered by 45 media outlets across Canada
- RADIO PHONE-IN SHOW: Democracy
Watch
Coordinator
Duff
Conacher
on
the
loopholes
and
flaws
in
Canada's
democracy (CBC Maritime Noon phone-in show (starts 15 min. into
show), May 17, 2010)
- OP-ED: Weak ethics
rules and enforcement undermine everyone in Canadian politics (Hill Times, May 3, 2010)
- WEBSITE ARTICLE: New
Brunswick
coalition
switches
from
opposing
NB
Power
sale
deal
to
pushing
for
democratic
reforms (Fredericton
Daily
Gleaner, April 9, 2010)
- WEBSITE ARTICLE: At
protest of thousands against NB Power deal on Saturday, Democracy Watch
Coordinator Duff Conacher calls the deal a violation of key democratic
government principles (Saint John
Telegraph Journal, March 22, 2010)
- WEBSITE ARTICLE: Democracy
Watch
Coordinator
Duff
Conacher
urges
New
Brunswickers
to
go
from
protesting
proposed
sale
of
NB
Power
on
to
pushing
for democratic
reforms to prevent future similar bad government decisions (Fredericton Daily Gleaner, May 20,
2010)
- 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)
- RADIO PIECE: Examination
of
the
federal
Conservatives'
democratic
reform
and
accountability
record
featuring
Democracy
Watch
Coordinator
Duff
Conacher (CBC
Radio's The Current Part 3, February 4, 2010 or click here)
--
To see Democracy
Watch's
Report Card
on the Conservatives' record, click
here
- OP-ED: Honesty is
the best government policy, and so it
should
be required by law (Owen Sound Sun Times, Kitchener-Waterloo Record and the Guelph Mercury on January 6, 2010, New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal
and on Straightgoods.ca on January 7, 2010, and Kingston Whig Standard, January 14,
2010)
- REPORT CARD: 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)
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