Your support helped Democracy Watch win a landmark government accountability ruling! Please click here now to help win even more key ethics and accountability rulings.
Dear Friend,
We hope all is well with you and yours and that you had as good a summer as possible given the challenges many are facing across Canada with wildfires and weather bombs, and Trump’s U.S. tariffs, among other difficult situations.
We are getting in touch with some good news!
With your support, Democracy Watch has won an historic unanimous ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada that will increase government accountability, access to justice and law enforcement standards across the country.
Click here to see details about the SCC’s ruling you helped win. And click here to see links to more than 35 media articles and law firm blog posts about the ruling.
Democracy Watch needs your support now for the other key government ethics and accountability court cases and complaints we are currently pursuing, including:
• Challenging the federal Ethics Commissioner’s and Lobbying Commissioner’s failures to enforce the federal government ethics and lobbying laws properly (click here to see details);
• Challenging Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s Bill 5 that gives him and his Cabinet king-like powers to override all Ontario laws (click here to see details);
• Challenging Doug Ford’s Bill 97 that covers up his and his Cabinet ministers’ communications with lobbyists (click here to see details), and;
• Challenging former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s unjustifiable shutting down of Parliament in January 2025 (click here to see details).
And we also need your support for future key ethics, accountability and anti-corruption court cases and complaints that we are planning to pursue, including:
• Challenging the RCMP if they fail to file charges in ongoing federal corruption scandals (click here to see details);
• Challenging the RCMP if they fail to file charges in foreign interference scandals (click here to see details);
• Challenging the RCMP and OPP if they fail to file charges in ongoing Ontario corruption scandals (click here to see details);
• Challenging Ontario’s Integrity Commissioner for failing to enforce Ontario’s government ethics and lobbying laws properly (click here to see details);
and we are also planning ethics complaints and court cases to file in Alberta, including about the upcoming provincial referendums which are undemocratic in several ways.
Democracy Watch also continues to shine a bright spotlight on dishonest, unethical, secretive, unrepresentative and wasteful decisions and actions by politicians and government officials across Canada. Click here to see details about DWatch’s more than 575 media appearances in 2026 (including more than 75 national appearances).
As the Supreme Court of Canada ruling that your support has helped win shows, all together we can make a difference!
Thank you for your support,
Duff, Brad and everyone at Democracy Watch