The Ontario government has asked Canada’s top court to weigh in on the province’s nearly four-year fight to keep Premier Doug Ford’s mandate letters to his cabinet ministers secret.
Mandate letters traditionally lay out the marching orders a premier has for each of his or her ministers after taking office — and have been routinely released by governments across the country.
Ford’s government, however, has been fighting to keep his mandate letters from the public since shortly after the premier took office in June 2018.
Despite being ordered to release the records by Ontario’s former information and privacy commissioner and having
