TORONTO — Ontario’s top court has struck down third\u002Dparty election advertising rules introduced by Premier Doug Ford’s government as unconstitutional, though…
Several groups that tend to publish third-party ads, including the Working Families Coalition and teachers unions, challenged that reintroduced law, and Ontario’s Court of Appeal has now sided with them.
The judges agreed, in a split decision, and gave the government one year to create new, Charter-compliant legislation.“They therefore undermine the right of citizens to meaningfully participate in the political process and to be effectively represented.”Article content A wage restraint law known as Bill 124, which capped the salary increases of public sector workers such as teachers to one per cent a year for three years, was ruled unconstitutional, though the government is appealing.
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