By Staff
January 13th, 2025
BURLINGTON, ON
This could be embarrassing!
Marit Stiles, Leader of the Official Opposition
Marit Stiles, Leader of the Official Opposition NDP,is absolutely delighted with the Information & Privacy Commissioner’s ruling that details about Doug Ford’s use of a personal phone to conduct government business will be made available to the public.
She said – “Today is a step towards transparency and accountability in Ontario. We have seen this government use every trick in the book to keep things hidden from the public – from secret code words to “accidental” data wipes . Today’s IPC decision means there’s one less place for them to hide.”
“People in Ontario deserve better than a Premier that doesn’t want you to know who he’s talking to or what he’s saying. Doug Ford likes to say his personal phone is open to anyone – but it’s just another way to for him to give preferential treatment to powerful lobbyists and personal friends.”
Meanwhile, the Premier has gone international, meeting with American media, spending a bundle on advertisements that are shown on American media – doing everything he can to prevent tariffs being placed on goods that are exported by Canada to the United States
Quick Facts:
Premier Doug Ford trying, single handily, to save the Canadian economy.
Records show that Ford’s government-issued phone goes unused for months at a time, while he’s known to frequently advertise his personal device
New Democrats put forward a motion calling on Ford to release his personal phone records while government lawyers fought to keep them hidden
The phone of Ford’s Chief of Staff was mysteriously reset without a back-up, destroying months of messages related to government business
The Ford government is under RCMP investigation for the Greenbelt scandal. They have done everything they can to obscure messages from Freedom of Information requests.
