We have more communication tools and technology than ever before – yet we know less and less about what our government is doing.

That’s what Ontario Ombdusman Andre Marin
believes.

As Scot Urquhart tells us, Marin says a culture of secrecy has been growing inside the provincial government for the last six years almost as long as Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals have been in power – and Marin wants government to become more open and transparent.

It may sound like the Ombudsman is simply making a very public grab for more power for his office. But as Marin himself pointed out, at the moment Ontario is the only province in Canada that lacks independent ombudsman oversight of so many of its crucial public services.