The Supreme Court of Canada will hear the Ontario government’s appeal to try and keep Premier Doug Ford’s mandate letters secret today.
Mandate letters traditionally lay out the marching orders a premier has for each of their ministers after taking office — and have been routinely released by governments across the country.
Ford’s government, however, has been fighting to keep his mandate letters from the public since shortly after he was first elected nearly five years ago. CBC Toronto filed a freedom of information request for the records in July 2018. The government denied access in full, arguing the letters were exempt
