The last day of voting in the Ontario provincial election is on Thursday, February 27, 2025. We sent questions to the political parties who had sitting members in the previous legislature and were running candidates in the current election on Monday February 10th. Individual candidates will receive these on Wednesday, February 19th. The response deadline is Monday February […]

2025 sees elections across Canada with the following in the calendar:  Ongoing Provincial Elections:  Ontario – Thursday, February 27, 2025.  Provincial Elections are to be called on or before in:   Newfoundland and Labrador for Tuesday, October 14th, 2025   Nunavut for Monday, October 27th, 2025  Yukon for Monday, November 3rd, 2025  Federal Elections:   Monday, October 20th, 2025 […]

The last day of voting in the Nova Scotia provincial election is on Tuesday, November 26th. We sent questions to political parties who had sitting members in the previous legislature and were running candidates in the current election on November 6th. Their deadline to respond was November 19th. Here are the responses and the date we […]

Fall 2024 sees three provincial elections in Canada.  The last day of voting is coming up in: British Columbia on Saturday, October 19th New Brunswick on Monday, October 21st Saskatchewan on Monday, October 28th Nova Scotia on Tuesday, November 26th Cultures of secrecy, efforts to evade accountability, and a general lack of transparency all erode trust in incumbent […]

The last day of voting in the British Columbia provincial election is on Saturday, October 19th. We sent questions to political parties who had sitting members in the previous legislature and were running candidates in the current election on October 7th. Their deadline to respond was October 16th. Here are the responses and the date we […]

The last day of voting in the New Brunswick provincial election is on Monday, October 21st. We sent questions to political parties who had sitting members in the previous legislature and were running candidates in the current election on October 7th. Their deadline to respond was October 16th. Here are the responses and the date we […]

The last day of voting in the New Brunswick provincial election is on Monday, October 28th. We sent questions to political parties who had sitting members in the previous legislature and were running candidates in the current election on October 7th. Their deadline to respond was October 23rd. Here are the responses and the date we […]

This Just In: Liberals, NDP and Greens respond to FIPA’s election questionnaire. Just in time for next week’s vote, we are pleased to reveal the responses we received from all three major parties to our election questionnaire. This is the detailed statement of positions on information, privacy, and other issues that have not had much […]

BC FIPA sent the leaders of BC’s political parties a series of questions on freedom of information and privacy issues. Here are the responses we received: BC Liberal Party response (pdf). BC Green Party response (pdf). BC NDP response (pdf).

Liberal Party of Canada’s response to BC FIPA, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, and Newspapers Canada’s question regarding their position on ATI reform. A Liberal government will:   • Post all Access to Information requests, responses, and response times online at accesstoinformation.gc.ca;   • Immediately restore the long-form census;   • Make as many government datasets […]

BC FIPA sent a list of questions on freedom of information and privacy issues to the NDP leadership candidates. We received responses from Adrian Dix and John Horgan which you can download below.   Adrian Dix’ response (pdf). John Horgan’s response (pdf).

Here is the response from the BC Liberal Party to our election survey on freedom of information and privacy issues for 2005. Download (pdf).