• NEWS RELEASE: Green Party receives B- best grade of bad overall grades in Report Card on Federal Parties' Good Government Platforms, Bloc second with C-, Conservatives, Liberals and NDP all receive F (April 28, 2011) - To see CBC.ca article, click here; To see Canada.com article, click here
• WEBSITE ARTICLE: Federal political parties largely ignore solutions to low voter turnout -- voters should at least spoil their ballot to show their concern (Epoch Times, April 21, 2011)
• WEBSITE ARTICLE: Federal NDP has some good government democratic reform promises in platform, but far from enough to fix Ottawa (Globe and Mail, April 21, 2011)
• LETTER-TO-THE-EDITOR: Federal Conservatives mislead on democratic, accountable government record since 2006, and fail to make comprehensive good government promises (Hill Times, April 18, 2011)
• NEWS RELEASE: Alliance of more than 30 citizen groups calls for immediate release of report on more than 220 past whistleblower complaints -- None of the federal parties have promised to strengthen whistleblower protection, nor to get the $500,000 back from the former Integrity Commissioner (April 18, 2011) -- To see related CBC.ca article, click here, and to see related Canada.com article, click here
• LETTER-TO-THE-EDITOR: Government watchdog agencies must be required to release their reports whenever scheduled or completed (Ottawa Citizen, April 15, 2011)
  
• WEBSITE ARTICLE: As Democracy Watch has proposed for years, an honesty-in-politics law is needed to end misleading (Macleans.ca (Andrew Coyne's column), April 7, 2011) -- To see Democracy Watch op-ed on the issue, click here
  
• LETTER-TO-THE-EDITOR: Prime Minister Harper proposes undemocratic move of cutting the annual per-vote subsidy for federal parties -- instead, change it to make it more democratic (Toronto Star, April 5, 2011)
• OP-ED: Federal Liberal platform is again too weak on democratic and government accountability reforms (TheMarkNews.com and the Hill Times, April 4-5, and April 11, 2011)
• OP-ED: We can have fixed election dates most of the time, and that is good (Published in letter form in the Globe and Mail, April 1, 2011)
  
• LETTER-TO-THE-EDITOR: All parties with two percent or more support should be in election debates, and Elections Canada should run them (National Post, Canada.com, Montreal Gazette, March 31-April 1, 2011, Hill Times, April 4, 2011)
• WEBSITE ARTICLE: Lobbyists who lobbied for favours from federal Conservatives now doing favour of helping them with election campaign (Halifax Chronicle Herald, March 31, 2011)
  
• NEWS RELEASE: Scandal is also that Carson's secret lobbying is legal, that Ethics, Lobbying and RCMP Commissioners didn't know about his lobbying, and that no one will likely find he violated any laws -- Loopholes must be closed, and enforcement strengthened (March 21, 2011)
• OP-ED: Honesty in politics is the best policy, and so it should be required by law (TheMarkNews.com, Guelph Mercury and the Kitchener Waterloo Record, February 24, 2011)
• NEWS RELEASE: Federal Conservatives' Accountability and Democratic Reform Record Gets An "F" For Breaking Many Promises and Practising Politics As Usual -- Another, Stronger Accountability Act Needed To Close 100 Remaining Loopholes and Flaws (December 17, 2010)

3 Key Federal Election Questions

1. Will federal political parties pledge to make the 100 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 15 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 (the only valid excuse being a completely unforeseen change in situation), and also pledge to pass an honesty-in-politics law?