David Coles is definitely not the CBC’s lawyer ; not after he said the “C” WORD

he may need to go into Witness Protection —— now that he  exposed the Ceeb to (more) ridicule

Media reporters have gotten very used to calling David Coles, “the CBC lawyer”, but he is not.

Definitely not.

Not after he used  “The C WORD” in a public court yesterday, while representing a consortium of media, led by the CBC.

CBC money is funding Coles’ efforts to pry more information out from under all those black lines on recent RCMP search warrants regarding the Gabriel Wortman shootings.

David’s moral stain, in the eyes of the Ceeb ?

He dared to talk in public about CIs (confidential informants). albeit in the most general terms.

But that was all the opposing government lawyer needed to inject that despite “a considerable amount of reporting on this, the Crown is not suggesting there is informants in this case...”

The cheeky reporter from Saltwire’s supposedly stodgy Chronicle Herald dared to report all of this in a prominent article. (Not sure if Saltwire is part of the consortium, but thanks be to God, that at least someone is making use of all theat expensively acquired new information.)

The cat was out of the bag.

For now all of the Herald's province-wide readers, who basically duplicate NS CBC’s province- wide listeners, knew that there had been considerable press reporting about Confidential Informants and Gabriel Wortman.

Just not from their beloved CBC.

You can just seen the pools of doubts starting to form in their mind’s eye.

Taxpayers who must support the CBC, by law  - as opposed to voluntary listeners of the CBC - might also wonder why the CBC was funding David Coles very expensive efforts, if they are unwilling to report his efforts.

Please call kenmacintosh @ cbc.ca and complain.

It won’t do you any good : but you will feel better...