TheStar.com - RCMP raid sparks outrage

"The RCMP launched a massive and highly unusual search of the home and office of an Ottawa reporter yesterday in a bid to find leaked material in the Maher Arar case.
The raid was condemned by organizations representing journalists.
'I think this is a black, black day for freedom in this country, and I'm absolutely outraged,' said Scott Anderson, editor-in-chief of the Ottawa Citizen.
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"I have never heard of a reporter's home being searched in this country. It seems an extreme step to take in circumstances where the evil is the leaking of information that turned out to be of great public importance."

This is a very scary article, which suggests a high level of collusion between the Canadian administration and the US administration to the detriment of civil rights. The Maher case is that of a Canadian citizen who was refused entry to the US and was subsequently sent to Syria by the US -- a country that US itself acknowledges as a source of human rights abuses including torture.

This reminds me a lot of the Paul O'Neill "inquiry" in which state-sponsored measures are used against the whistle-blowers, all in the name of "public security".

Thanks to cursor.