Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government is in secrecy-by-default mode, opposition critics say after reviewing the content of blue licence plate documents the province had been prepared to fight the release of in the courts.
The province’s information and privacy commissioner ordered the release of documents earlier this year on the government’s plan to get the plates with visibility issues off the roads, after the government denied a 2022 freedom-of-information request from The Canadian Press.
Government lawyers initially asked the courts to overturn that order but backed down days later and the documents at issue have now been released.