Federal government drops court quest to keep lab documents under wraps
Aug 17 2021 — Joan Bryden and Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — The Trudeau government is dropping its quest to have a court prohibit the disclosure of documents related to the firing of two scientists at Canada's highest-security laboratory. It served the Federal Court with a notice of discontinuance late Tuesday afternoon. In so doing, it's avoiding a legal showdown over the long-standing principle that […]