Toronto Sun Editorial: AdScam law must be tightened

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Corruption in the federal sponsorship program was one of the key issues that drove the former Liberal government from power earlier this year.

Thus it would be a terrible irony if the new federal Accountability Act, introduced by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservatives to ensure that a scandal like AdScam never happens again, ended up making things worse.

And yet that is the disturbing conclusion of independent watchdogs and non-partisan experts, including the office of the federal information commissioner and the open-government citizen advocacy group, Democracy Watch.

Last week in an appearance before the Senate committee examining the bill, deputy information commissioner Alan Leadbeater warned that not only would the Accountability Act — one of Harper’s five major election promises — not prevent another AdScam, it would make it harder to uncover.

http://torontosun.com/Comment/Commentary/2006/09/23/1888551.html

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1. Thanks for posting this.

I'm amazed its from the Sun.