Angry in the Great White North

The Conservatives think someone leaked details about the search warrant that was executed at party headquarters:

Angry Conservative MPs attacked Elections Canada on Wednesday, accusing the non-partisan agency of leaking news of the RCMP raids on the party's national headquarters to the media and to their Liberal opponents.

RCMP investigators were at the national headquarters of the Conservative Party of Canada again Wednesday to execute a search warrant on behalf of the commissioner of elections, an independent office within Elections Canada. The elections commissioner obtained a three-day warrant which expires today to search the Conservative offices and seize documents and other material in connection with an investigation into alleged election advertising spending violations during the 2006 general election.

The warrant remained sealed under court order Wednesday.

"Somebody should ask who in Elections Canada invited the Liberal party to make a home video out of the visit to our headquarters. It's very curious as to why Elections Canada would make an invitation to another political party to be part of (Tuesday's) circus," said Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre.

From the Criminal Code of Canada:

487.2 If a search warrant is issued under section 487 or 487.1 or a search is made under such a warrant, every one who publishes in any document, or broadcasts or transmits in any way, any information with respect to

(a) the location of the place searched or to be searched, or

(b) the identity of any person who is or appears to occupy or be in possession or control of that place or who is suspected of being involved in any offence in relation to which the warrant was issued,

without the consent of every person referred to in paragraph (b) is, unless a charge has been laid in respect of any offence in relation to which the warrant was issued, guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.

So I guess that means no one is going to talk anytime soon.  And then who is going to look into this?  The Mounties?

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