If you are so concerned aboutNational security and intelligence, you would do well to do a deep dive into the arrest and conviction of Cameron Ortis. E.g., the recent article in the National Post by Gillian Burnett. He was prosecuted while trying to expose someone who was compromising our security, probably the same rcmp inspector who investigated, arrested him and reported on him. There is a mess in our own security services, when someone like Mr. Ortis is condemned and wrongfully prosecuted. This is a travesty of Justice. Just read the trial transcripts. Scuttlebutt has it that Justin Trudeau wanted him condemned. His conviction sets a very bad precedent if not over turned. If the process engaged in to convict Cameron Ortis becomes a precedent, no one will be safe from false arrest and conviction!!
I suspect that we can trust he handiwork of the courts of appeal in this regard, since they will also scrutinize the record. Indeed, given all the cant about the sacred wisdom of juries, I suspect that the real problem, if there is one, will be that it is difficult to discern what the jury decided and whether there is a readily available means to disagree with the factual conclusions and inferences that the jury made...or must have made to reach its decision. But can you imagine the hue and cry if such charges were reserved to experienced jurists, only?
If you are so concerned aboutNational security and intelligence, you would do well to do a deep dive into the arrest and conviction of Cameron Ortis. E.g., the recent article in the National Post by Gillian Burnett. He was prosecuted while trying to expose someone who was compromising our security, probably the same rcmp inspector who investigated, arrested him and reported on him. There is a mess in our own security services, when someone like Mr. Ortis is condemned and wrongfully prosecuted. This is a travesty of Justice. Just read the trial transcripts. Scuttlebutt has it that Justin Trudeau wanted him condemned. His conviction sets a very bad precedent if not over turned. If the process engaged in to convict Cameron Ortis becomes a precedent, no one will be safe from false arrest and conviction!!
I suspect that we can trust he handiwork of the courts of appeal in this regard, since they will also scrutinize the record. Indeed, given all the cant about the sacred wisdom of juries, I suspect that the real problem, if there is one, will be that it is difficult to discern what the jury decided and whether there is a readily available means to disagree with the factual conclusions and inferences that the jury made...or must have made to reach its decision. But can you imagine the hue and cry if such charges were reserved to experienced jurists, only?