Below is a collection of videos from YouTube about Democracy Watch’s campaigns. To see Democracy Watch’s YouTube channel, click here.
Global News Morning (March 20, 2023)
Prime Minister Trudeau chooses family friend David Johnston to report on foreign interference in Canadian politics, which is as unethical as the PM and Cabinet choosing the RCMP Commissioner, Ethics Commissioner, Integrity Commissioner and other democracy watchdogs
TVO’s The Agenda show (March 2, 2023)
Ethics watchdogs, and all democratic good government watchdogs, across Canada are designed to be lapdogs because of loopholes in rules, flaws in enforcement powers, and very weak penalties
CBC News Charlottetown (February 25, 2023)
Charlottetown’s city council hiding an audit and key information about questionable spending from three years ago, violating many open government standards
CityNews Ottawa (February 14, 2023)
Commissioner of Lobbying gutting key ethical lobbying rules, while strengthening gift/hospitality rules (big business and big union lobbyists mislead Ethics Committee on effects of changes)
CTV News (January 9, 2023)
Police in Ontario looking into complaints about PC donors linked to Greenbelt land deals
City News (January 6, 2023)
The “Nepo Babies” in Canadian politics
Ontario Health Coalition (October 26, 2022)
The Ford Government lied to the public regarding their privatization of public hospital services
National Observer (May 24, 2022)
Duff Conacher, Co-founder of Democracy Watch, on how loopholes in the federal lobbying law allow for secret, unethical lobbying, and how the Commissioner of Lobbying is proposing to add even more
loopholes
CTV News (May 19, 2022)
Why can MPs lobby for their own investments while in office?
Unlock Democracy Canada (February 4, 2022)
Duff Conacher, Co-founder of Democracy Watch, on how to make Canada the world’s leading democracy
Unpublished Cafe (October 18, 2021)
UnpublishedTV: Is Electoral Reform Needed in Canada? panel with Duff Conacher, Co-founder of Democracy Watch and others
Bob Mackin (September 20, 2021)
theBreaker.news Podcast 204 with Duff Conacher, on the issue of the court case Democracy Watch and Wayne Crookes filed challenging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s August 2021 snap federal election
call, and the need for an honesty-in-politics law
The Agenda (June 14, 2021)
TVO The Agenda’s panel on the Ford government’s changes to Ontario’s political finance system with Duff Conacher, Co-founder of Democracy Watch and others
Unpublished Cafe (March 29, 2021)
Unpublished TV panel on issue of honesty in politics law with Duff Conacher, Co-founder of Democracy Watch and others
CTV News (January 22, 2021)
Democracy Watch: former Governor General Payette should lose pension, perks after resignation
Canadian Justice (October 19, 2020)
The legalities of the WE Charity Probe
City News (June 11, 2020)
Gridlock at Parliament, or healthy democracy?
CPAC (May 2, 2019)
Democracy Watch coordinator discusses cash funneling in politics
Global News (February 14, 2019)
Committee hearings on SNC-Lavalin allegations a ‘Kangaroo court’: Democracy Watch
CBC News (September 11, 2018)
Has Doug Ford gone too far with use of notwithstanding clause?
CBC News (February 5, 2018)
What happens when banks lose deposits
CBC Power and Politics (June 16, 2017)
Duff Conacher, Co-founder of Democracy Watch, on how all political finance systems across Canada are undemocratic except for Quebec’s (Click here to watch the video)
CBC Sask (March 6, 2017)
Democracy Watch Reacts to Brad Wall Nixing Sask. Party Stipend
Democracy Watch (February 8, 2017)
Democracy Watch’s video about its lawsuit that helped stop the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline from Alberta through B.C.
Democracy Watch (July 22, 2015)
Democracy Watch Co-founder Duff Conacher on the federal Conservative Party’s 2011 election robocalls scandal
Democracy Watch (April 8, 2015)
Democracy Watch Co-founder Duff Conacher on the federal Conservative Party’s Nigel Wright-Mike Duffy scandal
Alexander Broughton (June 8, 2014)
Vote for Democracy video featuring an interview with Democracy Watch Co-founder Duff Conacher
Operation Maple (April 4, 2014)
Duff Conacher, Co-founder of Democracy Watch on 5 Ways the federal Conservative’s 2014 Fair Elections Act was unfair
Science4Peace (February 14, 2013)
Talk by Duff Conacher, Co-founder of Democracy Watch on What Makes Up an Actual Working Democracy?
Parkland Institute (January 17, 2013)
Cleaning Up the Petro Mess – Duff Conacher
CBC Power and Politics (December 23, 2011)
Duff Conacher, Co-founder of Democracy Watch, on former Integrity Commissioner Mario Dion’s many conflicts of interest and weak enforcement record
The Agenda with Steve Paiken (April 12, 2011)
Duff Conacher: Democracy Watch, 18 Years Later
StraightGoodsNews (February 25, 2010)
Conacher and Chenier on lobbyists #2
StraightGoodsNews (February 25, 2010)
Conacher and Chenier on lobbyists #1
StraightGoodsNews (November 7, 2009)
Duff Conacher, Corporate Influence – Part #2
StraightGoodsNews (November 7, 2009)
Duff Conacher, Corporate Influence – Part #1
StraightGoodsNews (March 26, 2009)
Duff Conacher, Lobbyists’ Code of Conduct
ItsYourGovernment (October 19, 2008)
Duff Conacher, Co-founder of Democracy Watch, on the need for an honesty-in-politics law