From Global News.

An advocacy group is planning to file a constitutional challenge to Ontario’s freedom of information (FOI) clampdown, arguing it breaches the right of voters to be informed for a meaningful debate about public issues.

Democracy Watch, a non-profit citizen group based in Ottawa, announced Thursday it is working to file a challenge to a transparency clampdown included in the Ford government’s 2026 budget.

The changes Democracy Watch is looking to challenge were tucked inside the budget and passed into law using a night sitting of the legislature and bypassing the normal committee process.

The overhaul to freedom of information rules will exclude the premier, his cabinet and all of their staff from disclosing emails, texts, phone records or any other documents they’ve created in their government work.

It’s a move Ontario’s information and privacy commission urged the government to abandon, saying it would make Ontario less secure and less transparent than any other jurisdiction in the country.

Colin D’Mello reports.

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