Typically Canadian response

Canadian officials are thinking about maybe looking into and investigating the possibility of initiating moving forward with the preparation of a strategy that may involve sending letters to people breaking the publication ban.

Canada's attorney general is probing possible breaches of a publication ban set up to protect explosive testimony at the AdScam inquiry. Justice spokesman Patrick Charette said federal lawyers are looking into the Internet sites reproducing excerpts of Montreal ad exec Jean Brault's testimony and providing a link to a U.S. blog featuring more extensive coverage of the hearing.

"We have to decide what the best course of action is," Charette said, adding federal lawyers could charge Canadian bloggers and website owners with contempt of court or suggest AdScam Justice John Gomery issue warning letters.

"It's a discussion that will take place between Justice lawyers and the Gomery commission," Charette said.

Do Canadians ever do anything anymore? What's all this huffing and puffing about what you might do? Act!

I swear, if our country was invaded, the first thing our government would do (and it would take a while) would be to form a public inquiry to determine how it happened and to draft a report discussing options on what to do to prevent it from happening in the future.

Posted by Bruce Gottfred at April 5, 2005 10:25 AM | TrackBack