DWatch calls on Ontario Integrity Commissioner to reverse former Commissioner’s approval of top advisor for PC Party Premier Doug Ford’s Cabinet mining minister switching to work for Kinross mining company & also to investigate the minister. Details at: bit.ly/4xw997i.

DWatch says in article that Saskatchewan’s political donation system, which allows unlimited donations from businesses, unions and individuals “is a recipe for corruption, waste of the public's money, trading of favors and other abuses of power” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #skpoli

DWatch calls on House Ethics Committee to recommend closing loopholes that allow for secret, unethical lobbying (loopholes that facilitate foreign interference), and to require the Commissioner of Lobbying and RCMP to enforce the law effectively. Details at: bit.ly/3RWddh1 #cdnpoli

Liberals vote against opposition party proposed changes to strengthen Bill C-25 to help stop secret, undemocratic foreign interference & unethical influence in Canada’s elections & policy-making processes. Other changes needed to stop disinformation & misinformation. Details at: bit.ly/4adlbZj.

Please share — Come hear DWatch Co-founder Duff Conacher in Ottawa next Wed. May 20 speaking on democratic reform prospects in Canada, which are key to winning all progressive reforms. Details at: www.carletonpirg.org/events/g3xwj... #ottpoli

The Governor General is a key guardian of democracy & Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney should not have handpicked the new GG through a secretive, partisan process. The process should have long ago been democratized & Canadianized. Details at: bit.ly/4usBEk0 #cdnpoli

DWatch will file constitutional challenge of PC Party Premier Doug Ford’s excessive secrecy changes to Ontario’s freedom of information (FOI) law that retroactively cover up Fords cellphone records & Cabinet communications with lobbyists. Details: bit.ly/4cIgJnh #onpoli

DWatch in court at 9:30 am ET this morning in Toronto intervening in first step of appeal of ruling in case challenging Justin Trudeau’s prorogation of Parliament last year, aimed at winning restrictions on PM’s power to prorogue. Details at: bit.ly/3OCADXi #cdnpoli

DWatch says in article the Doug Ford PC Party’s proposed FOI changes the proposed changes “will make cabinet decisions and actions much more secret and that will lead to more corruption and waste of the public's money and other abuses of power” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Canada‘s Epstein files…of lobbying? Commissioner of lobbying and RCMP covered up lobbying violations in multiple cases, violating law by hiding investigation records. Secret, unethical lobbying loopholes must be closed, enforcement strengthened. Details at: bit.ly/4bfSFWC #cdnpoli #bcpoli

Liberal PM Mark Carney ignores India’s foreign interference in Canada & helps his own multi-million investments in Brookfield (which owns 10+ companies in India), by signing 10 business deals, 5 draft agreements on energy, AI…. & committing to a free trade deal #cdnpoli #bcpoli

This is DWatch’s quote (among others) in Tyee article re: Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s proposal for judicial appointments reforms #cdnpoli

DWatch & Save PEI call for fully independent, empowered & expert public inquiries into land purchases by allegedly Chinese Communist Party-connected groups in #PEI & foreign interference & land purchases across Canada. Details at: bit.ly/49UBBWV #cdnpoli #peipolitics

Carney Liberals refused to give the public & experts time to participate in their industry-biased "national sprint" on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Citizen groups set up a People’s Consultation on AI in protest. Participate by March 15: peoplesaiconsultation.ca #cdnpoli #bcpoli

Supreme Court of Canada hearing Stage 1 of DWatch’s appeal this week re: Ethics Commissioner’s ruling letting off former PM Justin Trudeau after he handed a grant to WE Charity when his wife was the charity’s ambassador. See details about the SCC appeal hearing at: bit.ly/4pAkhuY

Help win key changes to stop government, Big Bank and big business abuses of power, and to protect you and your family, at:

DWatch needs your support #onpoli for a court case challenging Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s Bill 5 at:

A big #cdnpoli question for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government first budget bill, which Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne announced on October 20th will include (weak, vague) measures to help stop bank account fraud, is:

#BlueJays #cdnpoli #WorldSeries #onpoli

More than a year later, RCMP and federal Commissioner of Lobbying still hiding rulings on lobbying violations, part of their negligently bad enforcement records. Did they hide their rulings to get appointed by Trudeau Cabinet? Details at: bit.ly/4hxx8eO #cdnpoli #bcpoli

Happy Canada Day! #cdnpoli #bcpoli Help make Canada the world’s leading democracy (we are behind dozens of countries, including the U.S., in key democratic good government areas) at:

DWatch says in article at Bill 5 is “dangerously undemocratic,” giving Ford cabinet “unconstitutional, king-like powers to change any law without a review or vote of approval by Ontario’s legislature” and also proposes to bar lawsuits vs. Ford’s abuses www.thestar.com/news/ontario... #onpoli #topoli

Come hear DWatch Co-founder Duff Conacher talk in Ottawa today, Thursday, May 22nd, on post-federal and Ontario election strategies for winning key democracy reforms, which are key to winning all other progressive reforms. Details at: opirgcarleton.org/events/fight... #ottpoli #cdnpoli

Green Party gets B, Bloc, Conservatives and NDP a C-, Liberals a D- and PPC an F in DWatch’s Report Card on parties’s democratic reform and government accountability election platforms #cdnpoli #bcpoli

Take the Vote Challenge Canada #cdnpoli #VoteChallenge

National survey finds 80%+ of voters concerned about secret lobbying & lobbyists fundraising & campaigning for politicians & parties. Secret, unethical lobbying is legal due to huge loopholes all parties have left open & added by Commissioner of Lobbying. Details at: bit.ly/4itFjba #cdnpoli #bcpoli

DWatch calls on all federal party leaders, and Liberal Party leadership contestants, to work together to enact key measures to stop secret, unethical, undemocratic foreign interference and disinformation before a federal election happens. Details at: bit.ly/3XnVzT2 #cdnpoli

Doug Ford’s PC Party gets F for “dirty dozen” seriously unethical, undemocratic actions in past few years, and also F in Report Card on Ontario’s main political parties’ democracy election platforms. Details at: bit.ly/3EWQhHZ #onpoli

DWatch asks for court approval to pursue private prosecution of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau re: alleged obstruction of justice and breach of trust for pressuring Attorney General to stop prosecution of SNC-Lavalin. Details at: bit.ly/4b2Qo0J #cdnpoli #bcpoli

DWatch releases much-delayed 2nd set of RCMP internal records re: investigation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau / SNC-Lavalin scandal. Records show RCMP hiding key evidence. Details at: bit.ly/41av0Ce #cdnpoli

See details re: DWatch’s criticism of the very incomplete, weak recommendations made in the Hogue Inquiry’s final report on foreign interference in Canadian politics at: bit.ly/4hpHNXQ #cdnpoli #onpoli #bcpoli

Please support DWatch’s court challenge against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s prorogation of Parliament and campaign to stop future PM and Premier abuses of power

Merry Christmas and happy holidays and new year to all! All together we can make Canada the world’s leading democracy in 2025 #cdnpoli #bcpoli

House Committee can strengthen Bill C-65 to help stop undemocratic, unethical big money, disinformation and foreign interference in Canadian elections. Details at: bit.ly/3CBREuu #cdnpoli #bcpoli

DWatch says in article “The problem is that the system is the scandal — it’s really a system of legalized bribery” and the solution is “to lower the donation limit to an amount the average voter can afford” like Quebec did more than a decade ago after its donation scandal #onpoli #topoli

Senate should reject reappointment of Commissioner of Lobbying Nancy Bélanger given her negligently weak enforcement record. She let off 98% of lobbyists who violated the law, and gutted ethical lobbying rules. Details at: bit.ly/4etBK2y #cdnpoli #onpoli