Opinion Martin Regg Cohn: No matter what Doug Ford thinks, some of your rights can’t be trampled
Apparently, the premier will keep doing it as long as people aren’t paying attention.Thankfully, judges are still judging him and holding Ford’s Tories to account. This week, Ontario’s top courton the democratic rights of voters to be fully informed at election time.
of massive protests by major labour unions, which had the potential to paralyze the economy — bad for his big business backers. That’s precisely the case that came back to haunt him this week. All along, it has attracted relatively little attention, apart from occasional protests byOntario’s Progressive Conservatives had long disdained the role of large unions in bankrolling so-called “third-party advertising” that badmouthed them before elections. Upon winning power in 2018, they had their chance.
Unsurprisingly, those outside groups — unions in the centre-left Working Families coalition and other vested interests such as the right-leaning Ontario Proud group — took the Wynne government to court. Surprisingly, before the case could be adjudicated, the PC government went even further than the Liberals, arbitrarily doubling the restricted advertising period from six months to 12.
History will record that while the Tories lost in a court of law, they won in the court of public opinion in the June 2 election. Unfairly, and wrongly, they suspended Charter rights long enough to muzzle outside voices and carry the day on voting day.
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