• NEWS RELEASE: Election Makes Clear Need for Election Reforms to Encourage Voter Turnout, Ensure Honesty, Fairness (January 27, 2006)
• NEWS RELEASE: 1,147 Promises from the Five Main Parties -- No Guarantee Offered By Any Party Leader, and No Pledges to Pass "Honesty-in-Politics" Law (January 20, 2006) -- See also January 21, 2006 Canoe.ca article about this news release by clicking here 
• WEBSITE ARTICLE: Election polls mostly misleading, media hype of polls irresponsible -- full disclosure should be required (Toronto Star, January 21, 2006)

• REPORT CARD: Federal NDP Has Best Corporate Responsibility Platform, Greens and Bloc Not Too Far Behind, Conservative and Liberal Grades Much Worse -- Many Key Gaps in All Parties' Platforms . . . (January 19, 2006)
• REPORT CARD: Federal Conservative Party Has Best Government Accountability Election Platform -- NDP, Greens, Bloc Tied Not Far Behind, Liberal Grades Much Worse -- All Platforms Still Have Key Gaps. . . (January 18, 2006) -- See also WEBSITE ARTICLE on CTV.ca's website about Democracy Watch's Report Card and Democracy Watch's January 16, 2006 news release by clicking here and WEBSITE ARTICLE on Canoe.ca website about this news release by clicking here 
• WEBSITE ARTICLE: Federal lobbying law changes will change lobbying industry in Ottawa, if Conservatives win and keep promises (Vancouver Sun, January 18, 2006)
• NEWS RELEASE: Voters Have Right to Know Donors and Loans to Candidates and Parties Before Election Day-- Do Liberals Still Owe Banks $34.8 Million? (January 16, 2006) -- See also WEBSITE ARTICLE on CTV.ca's website about this news release by clicking here and WEBSITE ARTICLE on CBC Radio (Halifax) website about this news release by clicking here 
• WEBSITE ARTICLE: Federal Conservatives' platform missing pledge to ensure that lobbyists can't work for government departments, or have connections with companies that do such work (PoliticsWatch.com, January 13, 2006)
• WEBSITE ARTICLE: Federal Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper bans B.C. Conservative election candidate who hid legal violation charges from Conservative Party (Globe and Mail.com, January 12, 2006)
• WEBSITE ARTICLE: B.C. Conservative federal election candidate hid that he is charged with violating customs law, going to trial in February (CTV National News, January 11, 2006 -- On webpage this link takes you to, click on link on lower right-hand side to see the video)
• NEWS RELEASE: Federal Debate on Ethics and Accountability Issues Raises Key Questions About Trusting Party Leaders (January 10, 2006)
• WEBSITE ARTICLE: Federal government's Cabinet appointment system dangerous to law enforcement in Canada (Saskatoon StarPhoenix, January 7, 2006)
• OP-ED: Election ad spending law helps democracy by limiting influence of wealthy interests -- Honesty and accountability measures the real solution to voters' concerns (National Post, January 5, 2006)
• WEBSITE ARTICLE: Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper has unethical belief that there it is fine for lobbyists to work on political party campaigns (PoliticsWatch.com, January 3, 2006)
• WEBSITE ARTICLE: Lobbyists Working For Parties and Candidates Violating Federal Ethics Rules (Toronto Star, December 28, 2005)
• WEBSITE ARTICLE: Federal Political Party Leaders Practise Politics As Usual, Increasing Voter Cynicism (National Post, December 28, 2005)
• NEWS RELEASE: Conservatives Only Party Making Comprehensive Government Accountability/Democratic Reform Pledges So Far in Election, NDP Better Than Liberals, Bloc or Greens (December 22, 2005)
• WEBSITE ARTICLE AND VIDEO: Liberal Party abuses taxpayers money by telling campaign workers to go back to work for the government during holiday week so that the Liberals do not have to pay them for the low-activity election campaign week, and PoliticsWatch.com December 12, 2005 article re: Lobbyists Helping Parties and Candidates in Federal Election Are Likely Violating Ethics Rules (December 21, 2005, CTV Newsnet ("Countdown with Mike Duffy Live" show) - Click here to read the CTV article, and on the lower right-hand side of the page this link takes you will see a link to the video of the CTV interview)
• NEWS RELEASE: Unbelievable Federal Party Leaders Continue to Mislead Voters in English Debates -- Fail to Pledge "I Will Resign if I Break My Promises" and Fail to Pledge to Pass "Honesty-in-Politics" Law (December 19, 2005)
• NEWS RELEASE: After Missing Opportunity Last Night, Will Any Federal Party Leader Take the Key Step Needed to Gain Voters' Trust Tonight By Pledging “I will resign if I break my promises” and Pledging to Pass an "Honesty-in-Politics" Law (December 16, 2005)
• WEBSITE ARTICLE: Lobbyists Helping Parties and Candidates in Federal Election Are Likely Violating Ethics Rules (PoliticsWatch.com, December 12, 2005)
• NEWS RELEASE: Group Calls on Media to Ask Federal Party Leaders “If You Break Your Promises, Will You Resign?” and Calls for Effective "Honesty-in-Politics" Law (December 1, 2005)
• NEWS RELEASE: Past Lobbying Regulation System Failed to Catch Illegal Lobbying and System is Still Fatally Flawed -- Conservatives Propose Most Effective Clean-Up Plan (November 28, 2005)
• LETTER-TO-THE-EDITOR: Media reporting of pre-election political polls misleads public (November 25, 2005)
• NEWS RELEASE: Conservatives' Ethics Accountability Pledges Much Better Than Other Parties, But Still Have Key Gaps (November 4, 2005)
• NEWS RELEASE: Gomery's Second Report, Parties Now and in Election, Must Clean Up System to Prevent Future Scandals (November 3, 2005)

3 Key Federal Election Questions

1. Will federal political parties pledge to make the 65 changes needed to clean up the federal government and make it much more democratic and accountable? 

2. Will the federal political parties pledge to make the 14 changes needed to make 155,000 of Canada's largest corporations, and Canada's big banks, much more responsible and accountable?

3. Will federal political party leaders pledge to resign if they don't keep their promises, and pledge to pass an honesty-in-politics law?