▲ 167 ▼ Ontario to introduce bill exempting Premier, cabinet from FOI requests (www.theglobeandmail.com) submitted 5 months ago by BuoyantCitrus@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca 33 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/61737959 The utter audacity of this. The exemptions would be retroactive, meaning all existing, outstanding requests for information from these offices would be scrapped, including Mr. Ford’s phone logs.
[+] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Jarix@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 child) Fucking laughable, we already do permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 1 point 5 months ago (1 child) Do you have specific examples? Or is this a commentary on just how much you can afford to spend on a legal team? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] maplesaga@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago (1 child) Anyone with "generational trauma"? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 1 point 5 months ago So maybe I'm very misinformed, but I'm unsure how this is an example of different rules. Care to elaborate? I can generously grant that social pressure/policy/issues don't provide supports but the legal framework doesn't to my knowledge favour any one class (aside from how much you want to spend on a legal team), and further, such effects are often taken into consideration by judges (if and when it gets that far). permalink fedilink source parent [–] Soup@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago Who’s gunna stop them, another sub-50% voter turnout because the Canadian electorate ranges from insane conservative morons to completely uninformed “moderates” with only a small amount of progressives who often get easily scared into letting the center and right get away with shit like this? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 child) Fucking laughable, we already do permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 1 point 5 months ago (1 child) Do you have specific examples? Or is this a commentary on just how much you can afford to spend on a legal team? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] maplesaga@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago (1 child) Anyone with "generational trauma"? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 1 point 5 months ago So maybe I'm very misinformed, but I'm unsure how this is an example of different rules. Care to elaborate? I can generously grant that social pressure/policy/issues don't provide supports but the legal framework doesn't to my knowledge favour any one class (aside from how much you want to spend on a legal team), and further, such effects are often taken into consideration by judges (if and when it gets that far). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 1 point 5 months ago (1 child) Do you have specific examples? Or is this a commentary on just how much you can afford to spend on a legal team? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] maplesaga@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago (1 child) Anyone with "generational trauma"? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 1 point 5 months ago So maybe I'm very misinformed, but I'm unsure how this is an example of different rules. Care to elaborate? I can generously grant that social pressure/policy/issues don't provide supports but the legal framework doesn't to my knowledge favour any one class (aside from how much you want to spend on a legal team), and further, such effects are often taken into consideration by judges (if and when it gets that far). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] maplesaga@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago (1 child) Anyone with "generational trauma"? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 1 point 5 months ago So maybe I'm very misinformed, but I'm unsure how this is an example of different rules. Care to elaborate? I can generously grant that social pressure/policy/issues don't provide supports but the legal framework doesn't to my knowledge favour any one class (aside from how much you want to spend on a legal team), and further, such effects are often taken into consideration by judges (if and when it gets that far). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 1 point 5 months ago So maybe I'm very misinformed, but I'm unsure how this is an example of different rules. Care to elaborate? I can generously grant that social pressure/policy/issues don't provide supports but the legal framework doesn't to my knowledge favour any one class (aside from how much you want to spend on a legal team), and further, such effects are often taken into consideration by judges (if and when it gets that far). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Soup@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago Who’s gunna stop them, another sub-50% voter turnout because the Canadian electorate ranges from insane conservative morons to completely uninformed “moderates” with only a small amount of progressives who often get easily scared into letting the center and right get away with shit like this? permalink fedilink source parent