Ontario’s Integrity Commissioner has let dozens of lobbyists off the hook even though they have clearly violated Ontario’s lobbying law by failing to disclose their lobbying or by fundraising or campaigning for politicians and then lobbying them soon afterwards.

Democracy Watch has filed more than 15 lawsuits challenging these bad rulings by the Integrity Commissioner, and needs your support now to stop the Commissioner letting off secret, unethical lobbying.

Ontario’s appointment process for judges, agencies, boards, commissions and tribunals is also too controlled by the ruling party Cabinet, which makes all these law enforcers more into partisan, political lapdogs instead of non-partisan, effective watchdogs. Democracy Watch is also pursuing lawsuits challenging Ontario’s flawed, unethical and unfair appointment processes.

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See the list below of lawsuits Democracy Watch is pursuing against the Integrity Commissioner, and against Ontario’s bad lapdog appointment processes:

1. Court case challenging the Ford government’s judicial appointments system for being too politically biased, and therefore unconstitutional (February 2024 on).
2. Court case challenging another Integrity Commissioner ruling issued in June 2023 that let yet another lobbyist off the hook even though he failed to register his lobbying, and put politicians in a conflict of interest by fundraising and doing other political activities for them while lobbying them (July 2023 on).
3. Court case challenging another Integrity Commissioner ruling issued in June 2022 that let yet another lobbyist off the hook even though he was a senior campaigner for a politician and then lobbied the politician after the election for multiple clients, and also failed to update his lobbying registration (July 2022 on).
4. Court cases challenging an additional 6 Integrity Commissioner rulings issued in June 2021 that let six more lobbyists off the hook even though they violated the law in several ways (July 2021 on).
5. Intervention in court case challenging Ford government’s limits on third-party pre-election advertising spending as a violation of Charter rights (July 2021 on)
6. Court cases challenging 3 of the Integrity Commissioner’s rulings allowing lobbyists who campaigned or fundraised for politicians to lobby the politicians soon afterwards, and 6 rulings that failed to penalize lobbyists who violated the lobbying law in serious ways (December 2020 on)
7. Court case challenging the Ford government’s illegal, unconstitutional changes to the administrative tribunal appointment system (July 16, 2020 on)