Democracy Watch renewed its call for politicians across Canada to sign the Democratic Good Government Pledge as their new year’s resolution, and called on Canadians to contact their politicians and ask them to sign the Pledge (and to let Democracy Watch know who they are approaching by sending an email to pledge@democracywatch.ca). More information is … Read more
As legislatures begin to open again across Canada, Democracy Watch called on Canadians to hold coffee parties through CoffeeParty.ca to write letters to politicians calling for key democracy and corporate responsibility reforms, and to let Democracy Watch if they are holding a party by sending an email to campaigns@democracywatch.ca. Democracy Watch created the CoffeeParty.ca movement … Read more
Democracy Watch launched a national campaign for changes to strengthen open government laws and enforcement systems across Canada, and called for a full investigation by the information commissioner, as it released its report on the lack of freedom of government employees to speak with the public and journalists, produced in partnership with the Environmental Law … Read more
Democracy Watch called on politicians and government officials across Canada to sign the Democratic Good Government Pledge as their new year’s resolution, and called on Canadians to contact their politicians, and political staff, and government appointees and officials and ask them to sign the Pledge (and to let Democracy Watch know who they are approaching … Read more
Democracy Watch filed a complaint with the federal information commissioner and renewed its call for a full public inquiry into Elections Canada’s enforcement record because Elections Canada has refused to release the rulings by the commissioner of elections on more than 3,000 complaints since 1997. More information is available online. Call 613-241-5179.
Democracy Watch called on the federal Conservatives to introduce the bill to ban false election robocalls and strengthen election law enforcement that they promised to introduce by the end of September under a resolution passed unanimously last March by federal politicians. Democracy Watch’s national letter-writing and petition drive has resulted in more than 61,000 messages … Read more
Democracy Watch launched a national letter-writing and petition drive calling on politicians across Canada to pass laws to strengthen politician spending rules and require auditor generals to audit all politicians for fraudulent spending to prevent politicians from using taxpayer money to pay their personal or political party costs. More information is available online. Call 613-241-5179.
Democracy Watch called on the federal government to introduce the bill to ban false election robocalls and strengthen election law enforcement that they promised to introduce by the end of September under a resolution passed unanimously last March by federal politicians. Democracy Watch’s national letter-writing and petition drive has resulted in more than 56,000 messages … Read more
Democracy Watch released Elections Canada’s preliminary refusal and final refusal to disclose its rulings on more than 3,000 complaints filed by Canadians in the past 15 years, which Democracy Watch requested under the federal Access to Information Act in March 2012. The full release is available online. Call 613-241-5179.
Democracy Watch launched a national letter-writing and petition drive calling for federal, provincial and territorial politicians to pass laws to end secret, unlimited donations and loans to Canadian political parties and politicians to get big money out of Canadians politics, and for other changes to make the political finance system democratic. Democracy Watch and its nation-wide … Read more
