CEP JOURNALISTS NEED PROTECTION CEP Media Release
Prime Minister Paul Martin should immediately put an end to ‘police state’ tactics being employed by the RCMP and Canadian intelligence authorities in the Maher Arar case says the president of Canada’s largest union of media workers.
“We have gone from the unbelievable to the unacceptable in this ongoing saga of Canadian intelligence agencies run amok,” said Brian Payne, national president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada in reaction to the recent police raids on the Ottawa Citizen and the home of one of its reporters.