Election Campaign Transparency Commitments

Posted by Jennifer Bell on Sep 08, 2008; 6:00pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Election-Campaign-Transparency-Commitments-tp1200.html

Hello,

At VisibleGovernment.ca, we're putting together a list of transparency commitments for election candidates to pledge to.  Our inspiration is Lawrence Lessig's 'Change Congress' campaign, whose pledge questions challenge candidates to:

- accept contributions from individuals only, lobbyists excepted.
- support the fundamental reform of congressional earmarks.
- support reform to increase transparency in Congress.
- support public financing of public elections.

As you may notice, only the 'support reform to increase transparency' pledge is applicable to Canada....   If you were to come up with a list of similar pledges for government transparency in Canada, what would be on it?

Jennifer
http://visiblegovernment.ca


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