Honesty in Politics Campaign 2007

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Honesty in Politics Campaign 2007

Democracy Watch released the following documents in 2007 in its Honesty in Politics Campaign
(in reverse chronological order):

REPORT CARD: Federal Conservatives' So-Called "Federal Accountability Act" and Related Decisions Earn a "D" Grade For Only Partially Increasing Accountability (December 12, 2007)
OP-ED: Elite Ottawa insiders make misleading claims that the Federal Accountability Act is too strong, when in fact it is much too weak (December 4, 2007)
NEWS RELEASE: Federal Conservatives and Liberals Both Hypocrites on Calling Inquiries -- But All Parties Have Ignored Some of 15 Questionable Situations in Past 15 Years (November 7, 2007)
NEWS RELEASE: Prime Minister Harper’s Conservatives Make It Clear They Will Break Promises to Democratize Election Candidate Nomination Races (November 6, 2007) -- To see related Novemner 8, 2007 Halifax Chronicle Herald article, click here
WEBSITE ARTICLE: Honesty in politics law needed to ensure election promises are kept and public not misled in between elections, and to address youth cynicism about politics (The Uniter (University of Winnipeg newspaper) and several other university newspapers across Canada, November 1, 2007)
NEWS RELEASE: Hypocrite Harper Continues to Mislead on Federal Conservatives’ Promise-Breaking on Accountability and Democratic Reforms (October 17, 2007)
NEWS RELEASE: Will Throne Speech Mention 24 Promised Democratic Reform Measures Federal Conservatives Left Out of So-Called “Federal Accountability Act”? (October 16, 2007)
NEWS RELEASE: 720 Promises By the Four Main Ontario Parties But No Guarantee Offered By Any Party Leader and No Pledges to Pass “Honesty-in-Politics" Law -- Elections Ontario Fails to Inform Voters of Right to Vote for “None of the Above” (October 9, 2007)
NEWS RELEASE: Report Card Reveals No Matter Which Party Wins, Ontario Government and Large Corporations Will Remain Largely Unaccountable for Dishonest, Unethical, Secretive, Unrepresentative and Wasteful Activities Because of Key Gaps in Provincial Parties' "Good Government" Platforms (October 5, 2007) -- To see the CTV.ca article about the Report Card, and to watch a video of the news conference, click here
NEWS RELEASE: Ontario Party Leaders Dodge Dishonesty in Politics Debate Question -- Make No Pledges to Resign or Penalize Themselves in Any Way if They Break Promises, But Still Expect Voters to Trust Them (September 21, 2007)
NEWS RELEASE: Group Calls on Media to Ask Ontario Party Leaders "If You Break Promises, Will You Resign?" and Calls for Effective "Honesty-in-Politics" Law (September 18, 2007)
OP-ED: Honesty is the best government policy, and so it should be required by law (Toronto Star, July 25, 2007)
WEBSITE ARTICLE: Politicians who quit for no good reason before their term is up should pay some costs (Sunmedia newspapers across Canada (column by Licia Corbella), July 20, 2007)
WEBSITE ARTICLE: As Democracy Watch has revealed, the federal Conservatives' so-called "Accountability Act" is half as effective as the Conservatives claim, is not fully in force, and fails to close more than 70 loopholes (London Free Press and 4 other Sunmedia newspapers, July 19, 2007)
OP-ED: Honesty is the best government policy, and so it should be required by law (Straightgoods.ca website, Hill Times, VUE Weekly, The Suburban, June 20, 2007)
NEWS RELEASE: Six Months After Parliament Passed It, Half of So-called "Federal Accountability Act" (FAA) Still Not In Force, And Conservatives Continue to Break Promises to Close Many Accountability Loopholes (June 13, 2007)
NEWS RELEASE: Federal Conservatives Propose Some Political Loan Restrictions, But Where Are Their Promised Measures on Nomination and Leadership Races, Open Government, Merit-Based Appointments, Honesty, Ethics and Secret Lobbying? (May 8, 2007)
NEWS RELEASE: Democracy Watch Proud To Have Played Small Part in Charter of Rights History -- Canada Also Needs A Charter of Government and Corporate Accountability and Democracy (April 16, 2007)
NEWS RELEASE: Former Federal Ethics Commissioner Failed To Enforce Rules Many Times, Does Not Deserve Severance Payment -- Next Commissioner Must Have Strict Enforcement Attitude and Experience (April 5, 2007)
NEWS RELEASE: Ethics Commissioner Again Fails To Enforce Ethics Rules -- Refuses To Deal With Complaints About Accountability Act and Income Trust Tax Broken Promises -- Democracy Watch Seeks Federal Politician To Re-File Complaints, Lawyer to Take Ethics Commissioner To Court (March 16, 2007)
NEWS RELEASE: Ethics Commissioner Refuses To Deal With Complaint About MP Wajid Khan Switching Parties and Keeping Report Secret -- Democracy Watch Calls on Commons Committee on Ethics To Order Ethics Commissioner to Enforce "Honesty" Rule (March 14, 2007)
WEBSITE ARTICLE: Federal Conservatives have broken their election promise to end secret lobbying of Cabinet ministers and top government officials (Globe and Mail, March 5, 2007)
WEBSITE ARTICLE: Election ad disclosure rules, and Election Canada's investigative powers, for online media need to be strengthened to prevent false article-ads (Macleans.ca, February 13, 2007)
NEWS RELEASE: Half of Federal Accountability Act Not In Force, Despite Conservatives' False Claims -- Will All Parties Work Together to Correct the Government's 85 Remaining Undemocratic Flaws? (February 5, 2007) -- To see the February 6, 2007 Sun Media article about this news release, click here
WEBSITE ARTICLE: Liberal-turned-Conservative MP Wajid Khan's actions raise serious questions about violations of federal ethics rules (Newsline (Pakistan), February 2, 2007)
NEWS RELEASE: Democracy Watch Files Ethics Complaint Against Party-Switcher Wajid Khan -- Calls on Ethics Commissioner to Resign (January 23, 2007)
OP-ED: There's nothing wrong with restricting political defections (January 19, 2007)
OP-ED: Honesty-in-politics law needed to discourage and penalize political misleaders (January 12, 2007)
WEBSITE ARTICLE: Democracy Watch files complaint that Prime Minister and federal Conservatives have been dishonest by failing to include promised measures in the so-called "Federal Accountability Act" (Georgia Straight, January 11, 2007)
LETTER-TO-THE-EDITOR: Political party-switchers and misleaders must face high penalties to stop abuse of voters' rights (January 5, 2007)

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