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Imagine you are an Ontario municipal councillor, perusing the agenda for your next meeting, and you see that a new report by the municipality’s integrity commissioner is scheduled to be discussed behind closed doors. You wonder: “Is this appropriate?”

Or, let’s say you are a township clerk, and your council is in the midst of a public debate when one member comments, “We could get sued over this. Let’s continue in private.” You are asked