Episode 266: Justin Safayeni on the Ontario Government's Overnight Evisceration of Access to Information

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Just over a month ago, the Ford government tabled Bill 97, an omnibus bill with provisions fundamentally restructuring Ontario's access to information system. Information and Privacy Commissioner Patricia Kosseim responded with alarm, but the government rushed ahead with no hearings or public debate. The most significant rewrite of Ontario's access to information regime in nearly forty years became law within weeks. Justin Safayeni, a partner at Stockwoods LLP in Toronto, is one of Canada's leading practitioners in access to information and media law. He joins me on the Law Bytes podcast to make sense of what just happened and what comes next.

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