Internal messages sent within the Ontario government on Microsoft Teams are permanently deleted after 30 days, according to policy documents, raising questions about how the province went about pausing transparency requests earlier this year.

In May, weeks after the Ford government narrowed the scope of transparency laws in Ontario to exclude the premier, his cabinet and their staff, civil servants in charge of processing freedom of information requests were told to put down their pens.

For more than a week, the work of disclosing reports, records and messages to the public was totally frozen so the Ford government could write guidance for how…

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