Ontario Proposes Law to Shield Premiers Records From Public Access

Ontario Minister of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement Stephen Crawford appears at a press conference at Queen’s Park in Toronto on Oct. 20, 2025. The Canadian Press/Laura ProctorThe Ontario government is proposing legislation that would shield the records of Premier Doug Ford and his cabinet from freedom-of-information laws, saying the existing legislation, written in 1988, needs updating for the modern era.“We didn’t have smartphones. We didn’t have cyber threats. We didn’t have cloud computing,“ Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement Minister Stephen Crawford told reporters at a March 13 press conference.  ”When this legislation was written, it was 10 years before the Spice Girls were a thing.”