RandAlThor to Canada · 9 months agoSupreme Court rules Premier Doug Ford's mandate letters to be kept secretwww.cbc.caexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up126arrow-down10cross-posted to: canadapolitics
arrow-up126arrow-down1external-linkSupreme Court rules Premier Doug Ford's mandate letters to be kept secretwww.cbc.caRandAlThor to Canada · 9 months agomessage-square7fedilinkcross-posted to: canadapolitics
minus-squarezaphodlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-29 months agoThen FIPPA has to be changed. Right now the act allows for cabinet deliberations to be kept confidential: https://www.ontario.ca/document/freedom-information-and-protection-privacy-manual/chapter-5-exemptions-and-exclusions#section-2 Maybe that makes sense. Maybe it doesn’t. But that’s the law as written today and the court decided that these letters fall under that carve-out.
Then FIPPA has to be changed. Right now the act allows for cabinet deliberations to be kept confidential:
https://www.ontario.ca/document/freedom-information-and-protection-privacy-manual/chapter-5-exemptions-and-exclusions#section-2
Maybe that makes sense. Maybe it doesn’t. But that’s the law as written today and the court decided that these letters fall under that carve-out.