Doug Ford is erasing the rules about partisan government ads GlobeDebate
, or to paint it a brighter colour, just go ahead and plant two feet firmly on the wrong side of it as if it was never there at all.
It’s one of the blurrier lines in politics. It can sometimes be tricky to pinpoint where an ad for a government program becomes a pitch for the party in power. It could be in the choice of a background colour that mimics that of the party’s logo, or in the way it puts the government of the day in a positive light, instead of merely providing citizens with useful information about a public program.All governments of all stripes blur the line – usually in small ways.
The auditor-general was given the absolute power to stop any Ontario government ad from appearing on the internet, on TV, on radio or on a billboard if it crossed the line. The law also stipulated in clear terms where the line was drawn. Sadly, the Liberal government of Kathleen Wynne eviscerated those rules in 2015. It amended the legislation to say that, so long as a government ad doesn’t use the name or image of an elected official, or the logo of a political party, the auditor-general has to deem it “non-partisan” and approve it.
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