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Dalton McGuinty champions the kill-babies-with-impunity agenda
National Post – June 5, 2012
McGuinty Liberals put ‘top secret’ label on abortion figures
By Barbara Kay
Six months ago an amendment was passed to Ontario’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA). It was folded in like whipped egg white to a cake batter, the batter being Bill 122: “An Act to increase the financial accountability of organizations in the broader public sector.”
Part VIII of Bill 122 amends FIPPA so that the act “does not apply to records relating to the provision of abortion services.”
Real whipped egg white makes cakes light and fluffy, but these egg whites are puffing many people up with anger. Pro-life blogger Patricia Maloney wrote earlier this month that “it all happened under the radar.” It certainly passed under my radar, because I can’t recall a single media item related to it at the time of passage. Strange in itself, because the media are usually all over any curtailment of the public’s freedom to access information and data of any kind related to public policy.
Maloney only discovered the new amendment when she applied to the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care to provide her with abortion statistics. The ministry sent her back the pertinent section 65 of the Act, excluding records related to provision of abortion services. No reply was received from the ministry when asked why such a significant decision was made without public debate.
So in one fell swoop all abortion-related data is secret. Why? If the stats remain available to any citizen who wishes to know them, will it increase the danger of terrorism? Will the economy suffer, toxins fill the air, a pandemic kill off every egg-laying chicken in the nation? I think not. There is more than a whiff of ideology in the air here.