Catégorie : News
(English) Federal political parties make good move of imposing ethics rules on political staff, but bad move of gagging them forever
Link to website article
(English) Environment Canada sensitive about criticism on muzzling scientists, as Information Commissioner continues to investigate Democracy Watch’s complaint
Link to Huffington Post blog
(English) Federal political parties make good move of imposing ethics rules on political staff, but bad move of gagging them forever
Link to CTV News Channel online video
(English) Democracy Watch calls on Ethics Commissioner to initiate inquiry into Nigel Wright, Patrick Rogers, Chris Woodcock and Benjamin Perrin intervening in Senate committee’s audit of Senator Mike Duffy
(English) Secrecy in the federal government is worse now than in past 25 years
Link to Toronto Star article
(English) Democracy Watch calls on Senate Ethics Officer to initiate inquiries into Senator Duffy’s acceptance of payment from Arthur Hamilton, and into interventions by senators Gerstein and LeBreton in Duffy’s audit
(English) Federal Conservatives and Liberals vote to keep Auditor General from doing regular, random audits of MP’s spending — Hill Times
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(English) Based on evidence available and opinion of the law, Democracy Watch sends letter to RCMP suggesting that Senate scandal investigation should be expanded to cover more people
(English) A new system is needed to suspend mayors who do things like Rob Ford has, but proposal to empower MPs to remove party leaders go too far, although other empowerment changes are positive — CTV News Channel
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