Thursday, September 03, 2009

Stand Up for Accountability

Maxime Bernier, last summer:
These briefing notes were not sensitive enough to be bar-coded, which explains why their disappearance did not set off any alarms in my department. For my part, I did not notice they were missing, I do not recall misplacing them.

Reality, today:
[Le Devoir] received heavily redacted copies of the material through the Access to Information Act. Still, in the parts that weren't blacked out, the newspaper says the documents contain information about — among other things — missile-defence systems, NATO's expansion to the Balkans, Afghan prisoners, arms control in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the presence of al-Qaeda in Pakistan.

Ladies and gentlemen, your Commons Defence Committee Chair.

3 comments:

thebanana said...

And yet his constituents think he walks on water. Go figure.

Ti-Guy said...

Jeez, The Globe just had to use that photo of Julie Couilard and her fantastic left mammary, didn't it?

Christ, I hate the media.

Scott in Montreal said...

560 pages....

Detailed information too secret to be released to Canadian citizens under the Access to Information Act...

Information left for weeks in the hands of a person connected to organized crime...

The potential to compromise security of Canadians and our NATO allies...

But not worthy of anything more than a partisan-led PMO review?

At the time Dion called for a full inquiry, and got only mealy-mouthed assurances that none of the info was too sensitive...

I smell a huge election issue.