Ontario’s government was described as operating in secrecy-by-default after opposition critics reviewed blue licence plate documents prepared for court resistance. The province’s information and privacy commissioner ordered release earlier this year regarding the plan to remove visibility-issue plates from roads. The government had denied a 2022 freedom-of-information request from The Canadian Press, prompting government lawyers to seek overturning the order before backing down days later. The released documents show bureaucrats presented options costing about $2 million to $2.5 million, while the government chose a zero-cost option of waiting for plates to disappear through attrition. The dispute followed another court fight over Ford’s phone records and came after freedom-of-information law changes exempting records of the premier, cabinet ministers, and their staff from requests.
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