…Consider the treatment of Richard Colvin’s legal fee. which he was legally entitled to have paid but needed the help of a vigorous public political campaign to obtain a final committedness to get them paid:

The lawyer for Richard Colvin, a former senior diplomat with Canada foreign mission in Afghanistan, says the conservativist government seems to be retaliating for Colvin’s testimony on captive anguish by withholding payment of legal fees.

In a letter sent Monday to the Military police complaint committee Colvin’s lawyer, Robert Owen Rees, says the government hasn’t responded to fee payment postulation since Colvin testified before the commons special committee on Afghanistan in Nov and is “impeding” his ability to act as a witnesser in the commission investigation

Following that public prayer and the political force per unit area that ensued, the government relented.

contrast the above with the written reportof the lav council Office backdating over budgetlegal expense for unknown region persons:

A newly released audited account has found official in the lav council Office improperly “backday of the monthd” approving for legal expense that ran over budget at the Oliphant Commission.

“The legal counsellor did not provide advance notice … that additional time would be needed until the legal counsel had already exceeded the master allotted time for preparation of hearings,” says the internal report.

functionary then date-stamped their after-the-fact blessing back to the date the legal fees actually ran over budget. The same thing happened again, and again approval was improperly backdated.