OTTAWA – When Cameron Jay Ortis, the former RCMP intelligence director general accused of leaking top-secret information, steps into an Ottawa courtroom on Tuesday he won’t be the only one on trial.
Leah West, a national security law expert and assistant professor at Carleton University’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, is watching the trial to see whether the current Security Information Act under which Ortis is charged is fit for purpose.Thanks for signing up!The next issue of Afternoon Headlines will soon be in your inbox.“We haven’t had a successful trial, even though we’ve tried.
“He could dip down into everything, and it wasn’t just Canadian intelligence, it was the intelligence shared with us by our allies. And so, the scope of the harm could have been deeply significant,” she said. “The quid pro quo for that is that a summary is normally released which hopefully will give the public a good idea of what happened in secret.”
Ortis’ trial is expected to last several weeks in Ottawa and will be conducted in front of a jury, to be selected starting Tuesday.
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