Supreme Court Sides With Province, Says Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s Mandate Letters Are Private

Published on February 7, 2024

Canada’s top court has sided with the Ontario government in its fight to keep Premier Doug Ford’s 2018 mandate letters to cabinet out of the public eye. The unanimous decision by the Supreme Court of Canada on Feb. 2 marks the end of an ongoing legal battle over access to the documents that the province has insisted are confidential because they would disclose the substance of cabinet deliberations. “Far from being mere ’topics’ like items on an agenda, the Letters reflect the views of the Premier on the importance of certain policy priorities, and mark the initiation of a fluid process of policy formulation within Cabinet,” Justice Andromache Karakatsanis wrote in the majority decision....

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