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buchang@CAM.ORG (Gordon H. Buchan) writes:

>Allowing any judge in Canada to impose a sweeping ban on publications, 
>and ruining Canada's international reputation (we've gone from being 
>peacekeepers to a banana republic that censors foreign publications) is 
>stupid. The only excuses that I have heard are procedural, for the 
>convenience of the Crown Prosecutor's office. "It would be too difficult 
>to sequester a jury, etc., " just doesn't cut it. 

>One of the reasons that procedure was implemented in the States was the
>growth of communications (TV, newspapers, etc.) Canada enjoys those
>conveniences, and views its most basic freedoms as bureaucratic irritants.

	The problem is that you have no conception of the reality of the 
situation.  You CANNOT sequester a jury for half a year, the amount of 
time, at minimum, that it will take before the trial.  You attitude is 
sickening and niave.  The publication ban was NOT for the convinience of 
the prossecutor's office, but to attempt to ensure a FAIR trial for the 
defendant.  Get your facts straight please.  


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