I thought you would. I know you would remember this, and you could probably quote this without a book in front of you.
—John Joseph Stockdale, sued Hansard, the printer for the House of Commons, for libel on account of a report published by order of the House. Despite numerous resolutions of the House protesting the court proceedings and the committal to prison of Stockdale by the House, the courts refused to acknowledge the claims of the House because it had not been proven that the claimed privilege existed....
Based on all that, again, we go back to what the justice minister said and what the Canadian Association of Journalists said in their “Principles for Ethical Journalism”. I think you know this, David. You are a former journalist.