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April 04, 2005

History in the making

There is a plethora of informative and entertaining comment on this weekend's blogosphere-shaking events regarding the "Gomery Commission", "Sponsorship Program" and rumoured Jean Brault testimony.

The Belmont Club: "Beat to Quarters":

The information seems to be regarded as accurate by Canadian bloggers (who quite bizarrely refer to Captain Ed's post in the third person without discussing it) because it conforms to much that is already known. ('It seems accurate, you know, the post people are referring to here, the one we can't reproduce.') which makes its role in the news cycle doubly interesting. Like the Rathergate and Swiftvets story, the scene seems set for an invisible and unacknowledged meme to exert a powerful influence on mainstream news. One poster at Free Dominion said Canada was about to experience the power of the American blogosphere.

Silent Running, "It's against da Canadian values to click on dis link, eh?":

No Canadian should go to Captain's Quarters and read possibly illegal transcripts of testimony about government money, secret payoffs, corruption, fat public relations contracts, political chicanery, and Liberal Party influence-peddling. No siree, if I were you, I wouldn't suggest reading information you won't find in the media which could very well cause the Vichyist government to collapse and catapault the Conservatives into power.

Because that would be wrong. Ah, the blogosphere - feel the force!

Winds of Change, "Canada's Scandal: The Government vs. The Blogosphere":

I expect persecution and even prosecution of some Canadian bloggers by the Canadian government. The people who brought us the election gag law that prevents groups other than political parties from advertising during elections can be expected to remain true to form. As long as U.S. blogs are publishing the details, people can't be faulted for pointing to them - and CTV News in Toronto is already driving traffic to Captain's Quarters.

Which brings me to CTV News itself. One of Canada's largest television networks reportedly had an article linked here (link updated... CTV seems to have avoided naming Captain's Quarters). I know this because of details of that reported article published at Captain's Quarters, an American blog outside the jurisdiction of the publication ban.

Here's a CTV report on the release. It came out prior to their lawyers approving the mention of CQ in relation to the story. Believe it or not, Canadian news sources could wind up committing a crime just by linking to my blog now

Please note once again: I will not publish any materials rumoured or not that may be in violation of the publication ban. I will delete any such material that is posted to my comments section. There are no direct links at the Flea that point to the Captain's Quarters post on the subject of rumoured testimony. From reading the publication ban itself I do not believe a direct link would constitute a violation of the court order but am erring on the side of caution in case the Gomery Commission should decide such links were a violation.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at April 4, 2005 08:53 AM

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