“I’M WALK-IN’ ON EGGSHELLS, WHOAH-OH! AND IT’S TIME TO FEEL GOOD!!”
This is the best summary I could come up with:
When jurors convicted former RCMP official Cameron Ortis of leaking secret information to police targets earlier this week, they didn’t just seal his fate — they made history.
And so it’s a difficult decision and some individuals might argue that in order to protect Canada’s national security, you have to give up trying to prosecute someone for it," he told reporters before the verdict.
Ortis initially faced four other charges under section 16 of the Security of Information Act, which deals with communications with foreign entities or terrorist organizations.
In a ruling that was under a publication ban until Wednesday, the court concluded that restrictions on the use of classified information would prevent Ortis from presenting a full defence on those charges.
More than eight years ago, Qing Quentin Huang, who worked for a subcontractor to Irving Shipbuilding Inc., was accused of offering secrets to China.
An RCMP news release alleged Majcher “used his knowledge and his extensive network of contacts in Canada to obtain intelligence or services to benefit the People’s Republic of China.”
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Clasified info, practices etc? They should have found a way to hand 'em to the US for big boy prosecution