Ford government goes to court to fight FOI disclosure of blue licence plate documents

Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government is going to court to try to prevent the release of documents about its ill-fated blue licence plates, a move that comes amid a broader clampdown on public access to government records. Lawyers for the government have applied for a judicial review of decisions by Ontario’s information and privacy commissioner ordering the province to release documents in response to a freedom-of-information request by The Canadian Press. While access to the documents should not be affected by recent, controversial changes the Ford government has made to freedom-of-informat…