Hello,
We hope all is well with you and yours, and thank you for signing Democracy Watch’s petition to Stop Doug Ford from violating the Charter at: https://www.change.org/p/doug-ford-don-t-violate-the-charter-of-rights.
Unfortunately, Ford continues to try to violate our Charter rights, and Ontario's Integrity Commissioner continues to fail to enforce the ethics rules in Ontario's lobbying law, and the Commissioner's weak enforcement in part caused the Greenbelt scandal as lobbyists for property developers fundraised and lobbied for the Ford Cabinet in secret.
We need your support now to stop another attempt by Doug Ford to violate the Charter, and also to stop secret, unethical lobbying and unethical government policy-making in Ontario’s government. Please click here now to donate to the Stop Ford Fund and see details about our lawsuits and ethics complaints about Ford.
Or you can donate to support all of Democracy Watch’s campaigns, and your donation will be matched and doubled now, at: http://CleaningUp.ca.
As you will see on that webpage, you can even receive a charitable tax receipt for your donation.
Even $5-10 a month will help win key changes to Stop Ford’s unethical decisions and Charter violations.
In 2024, with your support, Democracy Watch intervened in a key court case at the Supreme Court of Canada to try to win a ruling that ensures that limits on spending by lobby groups are democratic and fair and uphold Charter rights. Click here to see details about the case.
Your donation will support in 2025:
- Winning the 17 lawsuits we have filed challenging Ontario Integrity Commissioner rulings that have let Ford-connected lobbyists off for clear wrongdoing (Click here for details);
- Winning key changes to close loopholes that allow for secret, unethical lobbying by unethical big money lobbyists in Ontario (as Ontario politicians review the provincial lobbying, political donation and ethics laws over the next year), and;
- Winning other key changes to Ontario’s democracy laws to require politicians, government officials and big business executives to be honest, transparent and waste-preventing.
Click here to see details about these lawsuits and campaigns.
No matter what problems concern you – the Greenbelt, health care, schools – stopping secret, unethical lobbying and unethical decision-making will help get governments working to solve those problems.
Please click here now to help keep our campaigns going to win these key changes.
Please also click here now and send your letter now to key politicians calling for key changes to Stop Secret, Unethical Lobbying and click here now to send your letter calling for changes to Stop Big Money’s unethical, undemocratic influence in politics.
You can also see a summary and video about all the changes Democracy Watch has won for you over the past 30 years to stop abuses of power by politicians and big business executives that harm you and your family at: https://democracywatch.ca/30-year-anniversary/.
All together we can win these changes and hold Ford and his lobbyist friends accountable in court!
Thank you for your ongoing support!
Take care and Happy New Year to you and yours,
Duff, Brad, Josephine and the entire Democracy Watch team