<![CDATA[Ontario's Ford government just completed the most significant reform to its access to information regime in decades.]]>Ontario's Ford government just completed the most significant reform to its access to information regime in decades. It did so retroactively to 1988, without a single public hearing or meaningful debate, and despite explicit objections from the province's Information and Privacy Commissioner. Bill 97, buried in an omnibus bill, passed within weeks of tabling. Justin Safayeni joins my Law Bytes podcast to explain what happened and why it matters.
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/04/the-law-bytes-podcast-episode-266-justin-safayeni-on-the-ontario-governments-overnight-evisceration-of-access-to-information/

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