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Honesty in Politics Campaign 2010
Democracy Watch released the following documents in
2010 in
its Honesty in Politics Campaign
(newest to oldest)
- NEWS RELEASE: Federal
Conservatives'
Accountability
and
Democratic
Reform
Record
Gets
An
"F"
For
Breaking
Many
Promises
and
Practising
Politics
As
Usual
--
Another,
Stronger
Accountability
Act
Needed
To
Close
100
Remaining
Loopholes
and
Flaws
(December 17, 2010)
- WEBSITE ARTICLE: Federal
good
government
watchdog
commissioners
lack
key
powers
(because
of
broken
promises),
but
also
failing
to
do
their
jobs
properly
in
many
cases (Maclean's
magazine online, November
15, 2010)
- LETTER-TO-THE-EDITOR: If politicians didn't so often offer false hope,
voters wouldn't despair so much -- Honesty-in-politics
law
needed
to
penalize
misleaders
(Globe and Mail, September 28,
2010)
- NEWS RELEASE: Democracy
Watch
Applies
to
Supreme
Court
of
Canada
For
Leave
to
Appeal
Fixed
Election
Date
Case
Ruling
--
Group
Calls
on
Prime
Minister
to
Promise
Not
to
Call
Another
Snap
Election
Until
Supreme Court Rules
(September 27, 2010) - JOIN Facebook
Group To Protest Another Snap Federal Election
- 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)
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