Personal Phone Records Court Order
Courts ordered the Premier to turn over personal phone records used for government business.
🔍 An in effect Transparency policy from January 2024 · 97 · Well sourced
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"Protecting Government Privacy"
The premier's personal communications are private and not subject to freedom of information laws.
"Legislating Away a Court Order"
After courts ruled Ford's personal cellphone call logs related to government business must be disclosed (2025 ONSC 7099), the government introduced Bill 97 (March 2026) with a retroactive FOI exemption for the Premier and ministers — backdated to 1988, the year FIPPA was enacted. This legislates the court order out of existence rather than complying with it.
- Divisional Court upheld IPC order requiring disclosure of Ford's call logs (Dec 29, 2025)source
- Bill 97 Schedule 7 exempts ministers and their offices from FIPPA, retroactive to January 1, 1988source
- Ford stated: "personal cellphones that should not be FOIable" (March 16, 2026)source
- Multiple government decisions — including Greenbelt — made via undocumented communicationssource
- Information and Privacy Commissioner raised concerns about record-keeping gapssource
- Ontario has no law requiring preservation of government text messagessource
This section represents editorial interpretation of documented evidence.
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