The first transcript of court proceedings from the Raitt Gate hearing – thanks to the anon e-mailer who sent it my way.<\/p>\n
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Jasmine MacDonnell vs The Halifax Herald Limited and Stephen Maher<\/strong>
June 8, 2009:<\/strong><\/p>\n(excerpts)<\/p>\n
Michelle Awad, lawyer for Jasmine MacDonnell, questions Steve Maher if he knows who owned the lost binder:<\/strong><\/p>\n
AWAD<\/strong>: \u201cNow, beginning at paragraph 18 [referring to Maher\u2019s affidavit] you speak to Ms. MacDonnell\u2019s resignation from her position as Director of Communications at the Department of Natural Resources<\/p>\n
MAHER<\/strong>: \u201cYes, I do.\u201d<\/p>\n
AWAD<\/strong>: \u201cAnd you reference the leaving of a binder behind at CTV\u2019s Ottawa studios.\u201d<\/p>\n
MAHER<\/strong>: \u201cYes\u201d<\/p>\n
AWAD<\/strong>: \u201cYou don\u2019t know whose binder that was, correct?\u201d<\/p>\n
MAHER<\/strong>: \u201cI\u2019ve been told that it was the Minister\u2019s binder\u201d<\/p>\n
AWAD<\/strong>: \u201cYou don\u2019t know whether Ms. MacDonnell had her own binder that she in fact left with that day?\u201d<\/p>\n
MAHER<\/strong>: \u201cNo, I don\u2019t know\u201d<\/p>\n
Later on Robert Grant, lawyer for the Halifax Herald, says the very fact that MacDonnell left the recorder is newsworthy given she also left the binder at CTV, demonstrating a pattern of carelessness:<\/strong><\/p>\n
GRANT<\/strong>: \u201cI might add my lord that there is, part of the interest in the recording and the fact that the recording device was left for four months without being picked up is it relates to Ms. MacDonnells performance as the Director of Communications for the Minister, the Minister\u2019s judgement in promoting Ms. MacDonnell to that position. It ties in with, perhaps, a pattern of carelessness, which led to Ms. MacDonnell\u2019s resignation for leaving the secret briefing documents, the binder containing secret documents at the, at CTV.\u201d<\/p>\n
Later, Michelle Awad stated there is \u201cno evidence\u201d that the binder belonged to Ms. MacDonnell, implying that the binder belonged to and was left by Ms. Raitt.<\/strong><\/p>\n
AWAD<\/strong>: \u201cMy friend also mentioned that, I guess Mr. Maher, in his draft article, has characterized Ms. MacDonnell as careless, the Minister\u2019s judgment may be questionable in that she promoted Ms. MacDonnell. That\u2019s how they want to spin this story my lord. It\u2019s not about medical isotopes. The Chalk River shutdown was in May \u2013 the conversation that was recorded inadvertently was in January. This isn\u2019t about last week or the last two weeks medical isotope issue, this is about a private conversation. Not a confidentiality question, a privacy question, and the rights exist, in my submission, in this country. Mr. Grant suggested that the binder that was left at CTV was Ms. MacDonnell\u2019s; there\u2019s no evidence of that before your lordship, that\u2019s never been demonstrated.<\/strong> Similarily that she \u201clost\u201d her job, my lord the evidence is absolutely that she resigned.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The first transcript of court proceedings from the Raitt Gate hearing – thanks to the anon e-mailer who sent it my way. Jasmine MacDonnell vs The Halifax Herald Limited and Stephen MaherJune 8, 2009: (excerpts) Michelle Awad, lawyer for Jasmine MacDonnell, questions Steve Maher if he knows who owned the lost binder: AWAD: \u201cNow, beginning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}