FAIR Monthly Headlines: January 2012
A selected list of articles added to the FAIR website last month. These are about whistleblowing, whistleblowers, and the types of misconduct that they typically expose.
David Hutton on Senate appearance of integrity commissioner
Topics: Integrity Commissioner, Mario Dion, Videos, Watchdogs
Following his confirmation in December as Public Sector Integrity Commissioner, Mario Dion appeared before the Senate Committee on National Finance.
Senators tackled Mr. Dion on the three topics suggested by FAIR, and also put him on notice that his office has to start uncovering wrongdoing to justify its existence. David Hutton comments on the day's proceedings.
Three questions for the public sector integrity commissioner
Topics: Government transparency, Integrity Commissioner, Mario Dion, Watchdogs
Tomorrow morning the Senate Committee on National Finance is scheduled to question Mario Dion, the new Public Sector Integrity Commissioner. Dion replaces disgraced former commissioner Christiane Ouimet, who resigned after the AG found that she was not doing her job, and was rewarded with a $500,000 payout.
The Canadian whistleblower charity FAIR is calling for members of the Senate to put three simple questions to Mr. Dion regarding his performance to date and his plans. This call is supported by other accountability groups including Canadians for Accountability and Democracy Watch.
David Hutton on impunity of white collar criminals in Canada
Topics: Nortel, Videos, White-collar crime
As three former Nortel executives go on trial for alleged fraud, CTV News interviews David Hutton, Executive Director of FAIR, on on the subject of white collar crime in Canada.
The topics include: is Canada doing enough to combat white collar crime; and what role do whistleblowers play.
Senators urged to grill Ouimet’s successor
Topics: Integrity Commissioner, Mario Dion, Watchdogs
Accountability advocates will be watching — again — when Mario Dion, Canada’s second public sector integrity commissioner, presents himself to the Senate’s finance committee on Tuesday morning.
There is heightened scrutiny around Stephen Harper’s pick for the post because of how badly the last appointment went. Christiane Ouimet, the previous integrity watchdog, abruptly resigned after her own employees blew the whistle on her for mistreating them and failing to perform her job duties. Their claims were later verified by Auditor General Sheila Fraser.
Environmental charity backs up whistleblower's claims of government intimidation
Topics: Charities, Environment, Government ethics, Prime Ministers Office (PMO)
ForestEthics has sent a statement to supporters confirming the veracity of Andrew Frank's claims that the Government of Canada targeted the environmental group.
In an email sent to supporters yesterday afternoon (January 25), ForestEthics co-founder, Valerie Langer confirms the veracity of Andrew Frank's claims: "While a spokesman for the Prime Minister's Office denied using this language (An Enemy of the Government of Canada), he refused to comment when asked whether ForestEthics was targeted by the government. ForestEthics was targeted by the government. There's a good reason they wouldn't comment: it's true."
A Whistleblower’s Open Letter to the Citizens of Canada
Topics: Charities, Environment, Government ethics, Prime Ministers Office (PMO)
Today, I am taking the extraordinary step of risking my career, my reputation and my personal friendships, to act as a whistleblower and expose the undemocratic and potentially illegal pressure the Harper government has apparently applied to silence critics of the Enbridge Northern Gateway oil tanker/pipeline plan.
As I have detailed in a sworn affidavit, no less than three senior managers with TidesCanada and ForestEthics (a charitable project of Tides Canada), have informed me, as the Senior Communications Manager for ForestEthics, that Tides Canada CEO, Ross McMillan,was informed by the Prime Minister’s Office, that ForestEthics is considered an “Enemy of the Government of Canada,” and an “Enemy of the people of Canada.”
Privy Council 'cover up' of tribunal head's misdeeds
Topics: Harassment, Privy Council Office (PCO), Watchdogs
Chris Cobb – January 17, 2012
The Privy Council Office says it won't act on a report it commissioned into the troubled Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT).
The Ottawa Citizen has learned that the Privy Council received its report from Ottawa consultant Stephen Gaon in June last year and on Dec. 2 issued a statement to the three public service unions involved in complaints against the tribunal and its chairwoman, Shirish Chotalia.
B.C. government should face penalty for deliberately blocking FOI requests - FIPA
Topics: Access to information
The BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association is calling for penalties to be imposed on the BC government for cases where its deliberate coverups of embarrassing information amount to an abuse of the freedom of information process.
Yesterday the Vancouver Sun reported that the BC government spent 19 months claiming that a pamphlet promoting the HST was ‘advice to the minister’ and therefore would not be released through FOI. The government finally released the documents to The Sun on the eve of an inquiry to be held by BC’s Information Commissioner.
The Cohen Commission: disappearing salmon
Topics: Fisheries, Government ethics, Regulatory oversight, Science
The mystery of the disappearing wild salmon may be closer to being solved due to the reconvened Cohen Commission and the extraordinary three days of hearings held in December, 2011. As earlier testimony revealed, many environmental factors affect the survival of wild salmon.
Evidence now confirms that government policy supports the salmon farming industry, and that the industry has been willing to exploit this advantage to win regulatory concessions for its economic gain - in the words of one Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) official, the industry seemed "to dictate" policy. These concessions may have involved relaxed importation, inspection and quarantine of Atlantic salmon eggs, and inadequate supervision of fish health.
Senior Immigration Canada manager pleads not guilty in bribery scheme
Topics: Corruption, Immigration
Andrew Seymour – January 24, 2012
Assistant Crown attorney Mike Boyce said Diane Serre teamed up with Issam Dakik to take thousands of dollars from mostly Arab immigrants in exchange for fast-tracking their applications. Dakik would meet with the applicants and collect the money before contacting Serre who would use her influence as a manager and supervisor in Citizenship and Immigration Canada's Catherine Street office, said Boyce.
Bloated Montreal police force helpless against Mafia
Topics: Organized crime, Policing, Quebec
City police Chief Marc Parent is seeking to reassure Montrealers. He said on Tuesday that a retired police detective had failed in his attempt to sell to the Mafia a top-secret list of undercover officers and other police informants. As it happens, the ex-detective died the next day.
So, end of story? Hardly. It's a relief to hear that no informants lost their lives. But the larger matter — the police's overall performance against organized crime — is not reassuring at all.
Ontario securities regulator collects less than 1% of fines levied
Topics: Financial industry, OSC, Regulatory oversight, Watchdogs, White-collar crime
Admittedly, the figures put out this week by the Ontario Securities Commission look bad enough at first glance. Since 2005, the OSC has collected less than 1 per cent of the $73.36-million in fines it has imposed on fraudsters and other rule-breakers after defeating them in contested hearings.
The agency blames the lack of recovered money on the ability of bad guys to hide assets. It points out that it has had success with winning more and longer jail sentences for some offenders lately, and says it extends bans on trading and other activities for deadbeats who don’t pay up.
Ex-cop accused of leaking info to Mafia found dead
Topics: Anti-corruption efforts, Organized crime
Police tape was wrapped around the entrance of a hotel north of Montreal where reports say a retired detective and accused Mafia mole was found dead.
Staff discovered a dead body at the Best Western Chateauneuf hotel in Laval at about 9:15 a.m. Wednesday, reported CTV Montreal's Camille Ross.Montreal police have confirmed that a man was found dead at the hotel, but have not released his identity.
Toronto police corruption trial finally begins
Topics: Corruption, Policing
Eight years after they were charged and more than a decade after their alleged offences, five former drug squad officers are finally to be tried in Toronto’s biggest police corruption case.
John Schertzer, Steven Correia, Ned Maodus, Joseph Miched and Raymond Pollard — former members of the elite Team 3 of the Central Field Command drug squad — begin their trial before a jury Monday.
Nortel and Canada's white-collar crime track record
Topics: Nortel, White-collar crime
For hundreds of thousands of investors in Nortel Networks Corp. who collectively lost all or part of their investment in a firm whose value peaked at almost $440 billion, it’s unfortunate that corporate governance is not on trial.
Legal proceedings began yesterday against Frank Dunn, 57, former CEO of Nortel, and two Nortel colleagues, Douglas Beatty and Michael Gollogly, on charges of fraud in a trial expected to last several months.
The Cohen Commission and Salmon ISAv Evidence
Topics: CFIA, Fisheries, Food industry, Science
Judge Bruce Cohen obviously thought that recent evidence of the possibility of Infectious Salmon Anemia (ISAv) in BC's wild salmon was serious enough to warrant a reconvening of his Commission of inquiry into the mysterious disappearance of Fraser River sockeye. The three days of exceptional December hearings were revelatory, confusing and clarifying.
We have ISAv in BC waters but we don't have disease. We have different labs getting positive and negative test results on the same fish samples. We have critically important research curtailed just when such vital information is most needed. We have intimations of openness in a practice of obstruction and censure. And we have huge financial benefits accruing to corporate interests if BC's farmed and wild salmon can be marketed free of the stigma of disease.
The fight against corruption should start now
Topics: Anti-corruption efforts, Organized crime, Quebec
From Quebec taxpayers’ point of view, the announcement last fall of the Charbonneau commission of inquiry came as a relief.If the province is, in fact, awash in graft, greed and corruption, the best way to get back on the straight and narrow will be to expose every instance of malfeasance in excruciating detail.
The commission, named after its chairperson, Quebec Superior Court Judge France Charbonneau, is expected to begin hearings in the spring.
Loblaws takes stand on whistleblowers
Topics: Legislation, OSC, Qui tam / False Claims Act
A footnote in plans to beef up enforcement of Canada’s securities laws has caught the attention of the country’s biggest grocer.
Loblaw Cos. Ltd. and parent company George Weston Ltd. are urging the Ontario Securities Commission to “tread carefully” before implementing a program that would offer to pay a “bounty” to whistleblowers reporting on suspected misconduct at a company.
Securities sector easy prey for organized crime
Topics: Financial industry, Organized crime, Policing, Regulatory oversight, White-collar crime
The piecemeal nature of current securities oversight in Canada could leave the sector vulnerable to organized crime, a new study warns. The disparate system of market securities and regulatory bodies in Canada also makes it difficult to determine the possible scope of illicit infiltration, says the draft study released under the Access to Information Act.
Still, it identifies several examples of Canadian securities fraud — from illegal market manipulation to so-called Ponzi schemes — and underscores the attractiveness of such activities to sophisticated criminals.
Reeling in the great white sharks
Topics: Anti-corruption efforts, Corruption, Organized crime, Quebec
In the most quoted passage of his report last September, collusion-buster Jacques Duchesneau said that construction and engineering interests are part of a "clandestine universe" that systemically runs up the cost of the Quebec transport ministry's road contracts.
But the report stopped short of suggesting there was a high command presiding over the cartels that stymie competition in the planning, building and maintaining of the provincial government's roads and bridges. This week, however, Duchesneau went further. He indeed suggested this unlawful universe might actually have a well-defined nerve centre.
Widespread bid-rigging alleged in Montreal snow-clearing contracts
Topics: Corruption, Organized crime, Procurement process, Quebec
The cover article in Maisonneuve magazine’s current issue explores bid-rigging among companies that plow snow in Montreal. The story is as eye-opening as it is discouraging.
It is not really surprising, of course, that the snowplowing industry is crooked. Jacques Duchesneau’s blockbuster report last September for Quebec’s transport ministry concluded that this industry (among many others involved with roads) was “fertile ground for collusion.”
Investment protection agency needed
Topics: Corporate ethics, Financial industry
Robbers are taking $60 billion from Canadians every year. But the police and the politicians are doing nothing to stop them, a Lethbridge audience was warned Thursday.
That estimated $60 billion is as high as the cost of all the nation's other crimes combined, pointed out veteran financial coach Larry Elford. And it's crippling North America's economy. "This is not a recession," he told the Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs. "This is a robbery, and you are the victims."
Mexican whistleblower journalist's statement to the media
Topics: Corruption, Freedom of the press, Mexico
Award-winning Mexican journalist and now whistleblower Karla Berenice García Ramírez, who writes under the penname Karla Lottini, fears for the safety of herself and her family – including her two young Canadian born daughters – as she awaits deportation orders.
In a packed press conference on Thursday January 19, 2012 she made the following statement to the press:
Mexican journalist in BC who exposed corruption fears for life
Topics: Corruption, Freedom of the press, Immigration, Mexico
Her voice is strained as Karla Ramirez recounts seeing the butt of a gun, a man telling her she'd better be careful or her body might turn up in an empty lot. Yet she proceeds to name names, defiantly alleging corruption in the highest echelons of a Mexican government ministry that she says she unearthed while working there as a journalist.
"Names are here," she said, thumbing through her book The Talent of Charlatans, at a news conference Thursday. The book was written and published with the help of Vancouver's University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University last July.
Immigrant-investor program in Maritimes collapses in scandal, lawsuits
Topics: Immigration, PEI
Every year, roughly 60 numbered companies are registered on Prince Edward Island. In 2008 that number suddenly quadrupled, to more than 240, as the provincial government rushed to approve a flood of applications for an immigration program that partnered local businesspeople with foreign investors in exchange for visas, and which was about to be shut down by the federal government.
By the time the island immigrant investor program had ended, more than $500-million had flowed into local businesses, immigration consultants, lawyers and government coffers, the province’s auditor-general later found, a huge sum in a province whose annual operating budget is $1.5-billion.
Irish whistleblower bill to cover public and private sectors
Topics: Europe, Legislation
Draft legislation to protect whistleblowers, which is being brought to Cabinet tomorrow by Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin, will cover both the public and private sectors.
“We want to get it enacted early so that people who genuinely see wrongdoing, public or private, can blow the whistle without putting themselves on the hazard,” a Government source said last night.
Italy's crisis opens doors to cash-rich mafia
Topics: Europe, Financial industry, Organized crime
When Italian construction group Perego was struggling back in 2008, a white knight flush with cash rode to its rescue. Unfortunately the "knight" was a powerful mafia organization, the 'Ndrangheta, which went on to take control of the family-owned Lombardy business and tried to steer it on an expansion path, Italian justice authorities say.
"Luckily it failed," said Milan judge Giuseppe Gennari. The group has since collapsed and former chairman Ivano Perego is awaiting trial for opening his door to the crime syndicate.
Credit rating agencies lack credibility: author
Topics: Audio, Conflict of interest, Financial industry
Late last week, the credit rating agency Standard and Poor's downgraded nine countries in the European Union. Being downgraded is akin to being judged and found wanting ... and the countries in question were none too happy about it.
But who are these credit rating agencies, and who's rating their work? After all, aren't they the same bunch that missed the warning signs for the near economic apocalypse of late 2008?
UK whistleblower given government apology
Topics: UK, Victories, Whistleblowers
A whistleblower whose identity was disclosed to a private equity firm he accused of corruption has been offered an unreserved apology by the government.
British-born Nigerian campaigner Dotun Oloko, who lives in Brighton, provided the Department for International Development (DfID) with information concerning the alleged misuse of aid cash in 2009.
Big pharma fraud lawsuit settled for $158 million
Topics: Corruption, Pharmaceutical industry
Texas and a subsidiary of health care giant Johnson & Johnson reached a $158 million settlement in a Medicaid fraud lawsuit Thursday, allowing the drugmaker to pay a fraction of the potential $1 billion in penalties and fines that state officials had initially sought.
The lawsuit was one of dozens of state and federal cases alleging that the company committed fraud by making false or misleading statements about the safety, cost and effectiveness of the expensive anti-psychotic medication Risperdal, and improperly influencing officials and doctors to push the drug.
Tamiflu effectiveness questioned: Roche withholds trial data
Topics: Pharmaceutical industry, Public health, Regulatory oversight, Science
Two years ago, pharmaceutical giant, Roche, promised the BMJ to release key Tamiflu trial data for an independent investigation. However, Roche refuses to provide full access to all its data. According to a new report by the Cochrane Collaboration, Roche's refusal to provide access leaves critical concerns about how the drug works unresolved.
A BMJ investigation, published at the same time as the report, also voices serious concerns regarding drug data access, the drug approval process and the use of ghostwriters in drug trials.
Has the UN learned lessons of Bosnian sex slavery?
Topics: Human trafficking, United Nations
We do not see the torture inflicted on one girl for trying to flee her captors, but we see the tears of her fellow slaves forced to watch. We see the iron bar tossed on to the cellar floor when the punishment is over, and we know what has happened.
The Whistleblower spares you little. It is a film about that most depraved of crimes: trafficking women for enslaved sex, rape and even murder. As a dramatised portrayal of reality, however, The Whistleblower is "a day at the beach compared to what happened in real life", says its director, Larysa Kondracki.
Agriculture gag bill passes through Florida committee
Topics: Food industry, Food safety, Freedom of the press, Legislation, USA
An omnibus agriculture bill containing a provision written to stop animal rights activists and food justice advocates from taking pictures of farming operations in Florida passed through an agriculture committee this week.
Buried in a bill that includes stormwater management rules and traffic rules for citrus harvesting equipment and citrus fruit loaders, is a measure that would make taking pictures or recording images of “a farm or farm operation … without the prior written consent of the farm’s owner or the owner’s authorized representative” a crime.
US Chamber of Commerce flirts with moral hazard in FCPA fight
Topics: Corporate ethics, Foreign corrupt practices legislation, USA, White-collar crime
The US Chamber of Commerce, Washington’s largest lobbying organization, spent more than $700,000 in 2011 in its quest to curb the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Is that really what’s best for American businesses? Invoking the rhetoric of a populist manifesto, the Chamber is trying to make the case that increased enforcement of the FCPA has had a chilling effect on US businesses, causing them to avoid doing deals abroad for fear of setting off a FCPA investigation. But while this sentiment sounds pro-America, it is actually quite the opposite.
Whistleblower Vindicated by Fast-Food Industry's Move
Topics: Food industry, Food safety, Whistleblowers
In the waning days of 2011, fast-food giants McDonald's, Burger King, and Taco Bell announced they will no longer use a controversial beef product produced by food behemoth Beef Products Inc. (BPI).
At one time, the ammoniated beef product – beef trimmings known in the industry as 'pink slime' – could be found in approximately 80 percent of the hamburgers consumed in the United States, including those served at fast-food restaurants and through the national school lunch program.
Mafia is now "Italy's No.1 bank": report
Topics: Europe, Financial industry, Organized crime
Organized crime has tightened its grip on the Italian economy during the economic crisis, making the Mafia the country's biggest "bank" and squeezing the life out of thousands of small firms, according to a report on Tuesday.
Extortionate lending by criminal groups had become a "national emergency," said the report by anti-crime group SOS Impresa.Organized crime now generated annual turnover of about 140 billion euros ($178.89 billion) and profits of more than 100 billion euros, it added.
Criminal fraud trial of three ex-Nortel executives begins
Topics: Nortel, White-collar crime
One of the most spectacular flameouts in corporate history will be on the docket this week when pre-trial motions begin into criminal charges against former executives at Nortel Networks Corp.
Justice Frank Marrocco is scheduled to preside Thursday over motions, including those by the defence, in an open-court hearing at the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario. A trial before the justice is to begin in Toronto on Jan.16.
Brazilian president's anti-corruption success
Topics: Anti-corruption efforts, Latin America
I was quite impressed when I heard that Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff concluded her first year in government a few days ago with an approval rating higher than that of her predecessor, the charismatic Lula da Silva.
Her popularity is currently close to 75 percent. Her government’s approval is at 56 percent, which is even better than the 51 percent Lula had when he finished his first twelve months in office. I believe this is a result of her image of being intolerant towards corruption and providing sound economic management in times of global crisis.
US Ponzi scheme operator: Bankers 'in my pocket'
Topics: Financial industry, White-collar crime
For fraudster Scott Rothstein, nothing was more important to carrying out his $1.4 billion Ponzi scheme than his close relationships with his bankers.
To hear the former Fort Lauderdale attorney tell it, he corrupted bankers just like he corrupted a wide array of people: with cash, expensive watches, lavish dinners, invitations to his Dolphins suite, regular outings to strip clubs.
China Communist Party bureaucrats like their cars high end
Topics: China, Corruption, Government ethics
Even the police are driving Porsches. Chinese officials love their cars — big, fancy, expensive cars. A chocolate-colored Bentley worth $560,000 is cruising the streets of Beijing with license plates indicating it is registered to Zhongnanhai, the Communist Party headquarters. The armed police, who handle riots and crowd control, have the same model of Bentley in blue.
And just in case it needs to go racing off to war, the Chinese army has a black Maserati that sells in China for $330,000."Corruption on wheels is an accurate description of this problem," said Wang Yukai, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Governance in Beijing, who has been advocating restrictions on officials' cars for years.
US whistleblowers earn a record $532 million in 2011
Topics: Qui tam / False Claims Act, USA
Whistleblowers earned more than $532 million in 2011 through lawsuits alleging fraud against the U.S. government, a record for such payouts, according to a law firm study published on Friday.
Private parties suing on the behalf of the government collected $140 million more than they did the previous year, even as the Justice Department's total civil fraud sanctions remained consistent, the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher said.
Company Retaliation Against Whistleblowers Rises To All-Time High
Topics: Corporate ethics, Reprisals, Research
Even though more workers are witnessing violations of company rules, they're feeling pressure not to say anything. Nearly half of workers witnessed a violation of the law or their company's ethics policy, according to the 2011 National Business Ethics Survey.
Though 65 percent of workers who saw a violation reported it -- an all-time high -- retaliation against whistle blowers rose to a high as well: More than a fifth of employees who reported a violation said they experienced some kind of retaliation.
Tough Task Of Protecting America's Whistleblowers
Topics: Audio, Office of Special Counsel, USA, Watchdogs
Carolyn Lerner is hoping to bring the U.S. Office of Special Counsel out of its many years of obscurity within the federal government. The OSC aims to protect whistleblowers, eliminate government waste and protect federal workers from discrimination.
National Public Radio host Michel Martin speaks with Lerner, who's been heading OSC for six months.
US Whistleblower Warns Of Developing Tyranny
Topics: Honours, National security, USA
Thomas Drake blew the whistle on a massive domestic information gathering scheme and was called "an enemy of the state". This is his acceptance speech at the Sam Adams award ceremony on November 21, 2011.
Drake and his GAP attorney Jesselyn Radack were 2011 recipients of the prestigious Sam Adams award, created to recognize intelligence professionals who has taken a stand for integrity and ethics. It is named after Samuel A. Adams, a CIA whistleblower during the Vietnam War.
Obama's War on Whistle Blowers
Topics: Honours, National security, USA
More whistle blowers have been charged during Obama's administrator than all previous presidents combined. This is the acceptance speech given by GAP attorney Jesselyn Radack at the Sam Adams award ceremony on November 21, 2011.
Radack and her whistleblower client Thomas Drake were 2011 recipients of the prestigious Sam Adams award, created to recognize intelligence professionals who has taken a stand for integrity and ethics. It is named after Samuel A. Adams, a CIA whistleblower during the Vietnam War.
B.C. Liberals planned to promote HST with iPad giveaway
Topics: Access to information, Government transparency, Message control or 'spin'
The B.C. Liberal government planned to use Olympic nostalgia and free iPads to persuade a reluctant public to support the harmonized sales tax.
“The 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games gave British Columbia a foundation to build a stronger province and create new opportunities for workers and families,” said a 10-page pamphlet the government had planned to mail to each home in 2010, not long after the Games had finished.
Affidavit accuses Prime Minister's Office of threatening environmental charity
Topics: Charities, Environment, Government ethics, Prime Ministers Office (PMO)
A former employee of an environmental group critical of a proposed oilsands pipeline says the Prime Minister's Office threatened a funding agency if it didn't pull its support for the group. A spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper denies the allegations.
In a sworn affidavit released Tuesday to The Canadian Press, Andrew Frank says he was told by his supervisor at ForestEthics that a PMO official had referred to their organization as an "enemy of the state." The affidavit describes how staff were told their jobs were at risk after the official told Tides Canada, which supports the work of ForestEthics, that the government would "take down" all of the agency's projects unless it cut ForestEthics loose.
Alberta securities regulator losing out on millions
Topics: Financial industry, White-collar crime
The Alberta Securities Commission has slapped recent offenders with record penalties in the millions of dollars, but historically it only collects a small percentage from those being punished.
Over the past eight years, up until last March, the regulator had assessed $14.6 million against those who breached securities laws - and was paid $2.3 million.
Experts say spy case could be damaging
Topics: CSIS, Espionage, National security, RCMP
The Harper government hunkered down Tuesday in an attempt to weather an unfolding spy drama involving a naval officer who worked at one of the most sensitive and secure military intelligence centres in the country.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Defence Minister Peter MacKay, the military and the RCMP turned aside questions on the case of Sub.-Lt. Jeffrey Paul Delisle, who's charged with communicating information to a foreign entity.
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