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Patricia Kosseim
Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario
Patricia Kosseim is Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner. In March 2026, she published a formal rebuttal to the Ford government's proposed FIPPA amendments, fact-checking three specific government claims as factually incorrect and warning the changes would make Ontario one of the most secretive governments in the country.
Connected Scandals
The Ford government buried amendments inside the 2026 Budget Bill that would permanently exempt the Premier, all cabinet ministers, and their staff from freedom-of-information requests — retroactive to 1988 — nullifying every pending FOI request and active court case, including those seeking Doug Ford's personal cellphone records and Greenbelt-related emails. Ontario's own privacy watchdog publicly called three of Ford's stated justifications factually incorrect.
As Information and Privacy Commissioner, Kosseim publicly disputed the Ford government's rationale for the FIPPA overhaul, fact-checking three of the Premier's stated justifications and warning the amendments would paradoxically increase cybersecurity risk by pushing officials to personal devices.