Honesty in Politics Campaign 2005

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Honesty in Politics Campaign 2005

Democracy Watch released the following documents in 2005 in its Honesty in Politics Campaign
(in reverse chronological order):

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)
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)
NEWS RELEASE: Ontario Government Takes a Few, Loophole-Filled Steps Toward Democratic Reforms, But Much More Needs to be Done (December 14, 2005)
WEBSITE ARTICLE: Political Parties Need to Make Honesty, Accountability Pledges to Win Trust of Voters (Edmonton Sun, December 13, 2005)
WEBSITE ARTICLE: Political Polls Misleading Voters By Not Reporting Undecided Voter Numbers (Hill Times, 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)
LETTER-TO-THE-EDITOR: Media reporting of pre-election political polls misleads public (November 25, 2005)
NEWS RELEASE: Federal Liberals Delay and Deceive on Democratic Reforms (November 10, 2005)
WEBSITE EDITORIAL: Federal Conservatives' Propose Good Plan to Clean Up Federal Government, Honesty in Politics Law One of Few Key Gaps (Montreal Gazette, November 8, 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)
NEWS RELEASE: Paul Martin and Almost All Liberal Ministers, MPs, Staff, Appointees Responsible for Adscam -- Broke Integrity Promises, Should Not Be Trusted Now (November 2, 2005)
WEBSITE ARTICLE: Prime Minister Paul Martin violates his own promise, keeps sole control of appointments to the Supreme Court of Canada instead of giving opposition parties a say (London Free Press (printing Canadian Press wire story), October 17, 2005)
NEWS RELEASE: Will Parties Work Together to Clean-Up the Federal Government? (April 28, 2005)
OP-EDS, COMMENTARY, NEWS RELEASE, INTERVIEW, COLUMN: Democracy Watch on the Gomery Commission Inquiry and Reforms Needed to Clean-Up the Federal Governmen t (April 7-May 2, 2005)
RADIO COMMENTARY: Duff Conacher's "Commentary" on the Need to Close All Loopholes in the Federal Government's Political Donations, Ethics and Spending Systems (CBC Radio, April 7, 2005)
OP-ED: Many Changes Needed Before Canada Will be a Democracy (Hill Times (January 10, 2005) and Toronto Star (December 29, 2004))

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