Honesty in Politics Campaign 2009

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Honesty in Politics Campaign 2009

Democracy Watch released the following documents in 2009 in its Honesty in Politics Campaign
(newest to oldest)

REPORT CARD: Federal Conservatives' Accountability and Democratic Reform Record Earns Only an "E" Grade For Breaking Many Promises and Practising Politics As Usual -- Three Years After Federal Accountability Act Became Law, Dishonesty, Conflicts of Interest, Excessive Secrecy, Unlimited Donations and Patronage All Still Legal -- Another, Stronger Accountability Act Needed (December 16, 2009)
NEWS RELEASE: Ontario Liberals Reject Good Government Amendments to Their "Bad Government Act" -- Dishonesty, Secret Unlimited Donations, Secret Lobbying, Excessive Secrecy and Conflicts of Interest Still Allowed, and Independence of Public Inquiries Undermined (December 3, 2009)
NEWS RELEASE: Democracy Watch Marks Second International Day of Democracy -- Calls on Political Parties Across Canada to Make Much-Needed and Well-Known Democratizing Changes (September 15, 2009)
TESTIMONY AND NEWS RELEASE: Group's Final Policy Submission to Oliphant Commission Details 20 Unethical, But Still Legal, Actions By Cabinet Ministers and Others in Federal Politics, and 10 Key Flaws in Enforcement Systems -- Loopholes in Ethics and Openness Laws Must Be Closed, and Enforcement Strengthened, To Prevent Ethics Violations and Excessive Secrecy (July 31, 2009)
LETTER-TO-THE-EDITOR: Prime Minister Harper's Conservatives have hurt their own credibility as much as G8 country leaders by breaking half of their promises (Canada.com, National Post, Montreal Gazette, Windsor Star, July 14, 2009)
WEBSITE ARTICLE: Federal Conservative Cabinet appoints several Conservatives to federal government institutions, continuing to fail to establish promised Public Appointments Commission (CTV.ca and 27 other media outlets across Canada (all publishing a Canadian Press wire article), May 11, 2009)
LETTER-TO-THE-EDITOR: Federal government still needs key democratic reforms (in part because of past Conservative and Liberal broken promises), but is more democratic and accountable than 20 years ago (Hill Times, May 11, 2009)
WEBSITE ARTICLE: Conservatives repeat 2006 and 2008 election promise that they will create independent Public Appointments Commission to help ensure merit-based Cabinet appointments (Canoe.ca and 19 other media websites across Canada (all publishing a Canadian Press wire article), May 4, 2009)
WEBSITE ARTICLE: Prime Minister Harper's Conservatives ignore some new laws, even laws they proposed and supported (Xtra magazine, April 15, 2009)
LETTER-TO-THE-EDITOR: Prime Minister Harper's Conservatives have broken as many government accountability promises as they have kept, have failed to clean up the federal government and have increased voter cynicism, just like Jean Chretien's Liberals did (Canada.com and Nanaimo Daily News, April 8, 2009)
WEBSITE ARTICLE: Prime Minister Harper's Conservatives have broken as many government accountability promises as they have kept, failing to clean up the federal government and increasing voter cynicism (Canada.com and 3 CanWest News Service newspapers, April 4, 2009)
NEWS RELEASE: Global Integrity 2008 Report Drops Canada From "Strong" to "Moderate" Level in World's Most Detailed Assessment of Government Integrity and Democracy (February 18, 2009)
WEBSITE ARTICLE: Democracy Watch granted standing as a full party for Oliphant Commission of Inquiry into the Mulroney-Schreiber affair's review of federal ethics, political financing, spending and access to information laws and enforcement systems (Canoe.ca and 26 other media outlets across Canada (all publishing Canadian Press wire article), February 11, 2009)
WEBSITE ARTICLE: Democracy Watch seeks standing as party and/or intervenor in Oliphant Commission of Inquiry into Mulroney-Schreiber affair to recommend changes to federal ethics, political financing, spending and access to information laws and enforcement systems (CBC.ca and 29 other media outlets across Canada (all publishing Canadian Press wire article), January 22, 2009) -- To see Democracy Watch's submission, click here
WEBSITE ARTICLE: Public political funding changes, honesty-in-politics law, voting system reform, and democracy education, all proposed by Democracy Watch, are among the top solutions to problems with Canada's democracy (Canada.com and CanWest News Service newspapers across Canada, January 15, 2009)
LETTER-TO-THE-EDITOR: Prime Minister Harper's Senate and Supreme Court appointments are two of four appointment promises the Conservatives have broken, and add to their 27 other broken democratic reform promises (Canada.com and six other newspapers across Canada, and the subject of interviews on nine radio shows across Canada, December 23, 2008)
REPORT CARD: Federal Conservatives' So-Called "Federal Accountability Act" and Related Decisions Earn a "D" Grade For Only Partially Increasing Government Democracy and Accountability (December 12, 2008) -- To see Canadian Press wire article about the Report Card published by 23 media outlets across Canada, click here)

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