Democracy Watch announced its court case challenging decisions by federal Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson made in a letter dated March 29th sent to Democracy Watch, including her refusal to recuse herself from investigating and ruling on complaints about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau‘s (Papineau, Que.) actions because of her conflict of interest created when Trudeau Cabinet gave her the gift of a … Read more
Democracy Watch applauded the report released by the House of Commons Government Operations Committee that calls for many key changes to strengthen protection for whistleblowers who report wrongdoing by people in the federal government. “The committee, public sector unions and citizen watchdog groups are unanimously calling for key changes to strengthen whistleblower protection, as are tens of thousands … Read more
As part of its Stop Bad Government Appointments Campaign, Democracy Watch formally launched its Stop Political Lapdog Appointments petition on Change.org that calls on the federal Liberal government to make the process actually independent and merit-based (as Britain has) for Cabinet appointments of all judges, officers of parliament, and members of agencies, boards, commissions and tribunals. “The Liberals’ … Read more
Democracy Watch has responded to Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson‘s ruling finding Nigel Wright guilty of violating the federal Conflict of Interest Act. “While it is good to see Ethics Commissioner Dawson finally find Nigel Wright guilty of violating the federal ethics law, it’s too little, too late given that she let him off for other past … Read more
Democracy Watch released the letter it sent to the federal Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson concerning the situation revealed in an article in the May 5th edition of the Globe and Mail, and in documents obtained by Ken Rubin and the Globe and Mail through an Access to Information Act request. The letter calls for an investigation and ruling on whether Privy … Read more
Democracy Watch has called on the federal Liberals to suspend the appointment of the next Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, Commissioner of Lobbying, Information Commissioner and RCMP Commissioner, and all other judicial and watchdog appointments, until they make the appointment process actually independent and merit-based. Democracy Watch’s Stop Bad Government Appointments Campaign proposes that the way to … Read more
Democracy Watch released the letter it sent to the federal Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson concerning the situation revealed in an article in the Globe and Mail. The letter is calling for an investigation and ruling on whether Finance Minister Bill Morneau (Toronto Centre, Ont.) violated the Conflict of Interest Act by giving preferential treatment to the … Read more
Democracy Watch released the letter it received from federal Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson in response to the four complaint letters Democracy Watch has filed with the Ethics Commissioner since December. “It would be outrageous if someone filed a lawsuit against Prime Minister Trudeau and he chose the judge to rule on the lawsuit and … Read more
Democracy Watch released the letter it sent to federal Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson calling for a ruling that former Conservative Attorney General and Minister of Justice Peter MacKay violated the Conflict of Interest Act by appointing friends as judges, including his former Conservative colleague Vic Toews. “It seems clear that at least some of former Minister … Read more
Democracy Watch formally launched a petitition which calls on the federal Liberals to add corporate responsibility conditions to its loan to Bombardier, and to work with other parties to change the law so that the government is only allowed to give tax breaks, subsidies, grants, loans or other support to big businesses in return for … Read more
