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Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government is planning to skip public hearings to pass its omnibus budget bill that contains a retroactive clampdown on access to his cellphone records.

The retroactive FOI law would shield Ford and cabinet members — along with their offices — from public access to documents, with Ford admitting that part of the rationale is to kill a request from Global News to obtain his cellphone records.

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[-] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

They were never that different. Ford just didn't think he could get away with it before Trump showed him.

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