By Matt Malone

Matt Malone is an assistant professor at the Thompson Rivers University Faculty of Law.

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Doug Ford (right) is sworn in as premier of Ontario during a ceremony at Queen's Park in Toronto on Friday, June 29, 2018. Cabinet ministers Christine Elliott and Vic Fedeli look on. Mark Blinch/The Canadian Press.

The CBC and Ontario mandate letters dispute is a distraction from bigger access to information problems

The dispute over the CBC’s access to the Ford government’s mandate letters to its new cabinet in 2018 is before the Supreme Court. But regardless of the outcome, it will not fix our broken access to information system whose problems go much deeper.

Matt Malone - February 2, 2023

Conservative interim leader Candice Bergen rises during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, April 6, 2022. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press.

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Free votes on conscience issues are a poison pill for the Conservative Party

The federal Conservative Party’s Policy Declaration supporting free votes on “issues of moral conscience” was a solution to important divisions over specific issues in Canadian society in 2005. Today it is a poison pill that consistently loses elections.

Matt Malone - July 27, 2022