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Fix inquiry process


Dear Editor:

Now that the holiday season has given the voting public some respite from the Mulroney-
Schreiber-commons-committee circus, some sober second thought should be given to the question of what good would an inquiry serve other than grist for the media mill.

Some of us still remember the Somalia Inquiry; more of us remember the Gomery Inquiry. In fact, there has been a steady stream of inquiries that have apparently not accomplished their intended purpose.

The problem is that the primary purpose of inquiries has been diverted from finding what happened, so that the system could be fixed, to determining the extent of, and guilt or innocence of, the persons involved. I n trying to protect the alleged person's rights, the inquiry cannot get to the root of the problem.

To replace the costly inquiry, perhaps we could set up a new definition or model of Grand Jury, staffed with people from the profession focused upon, skilled investigators and interrogators, plus qualified lay persons, all chosen by lot.

That grand jury would focus on obtaining, in secret session, what was wrong with the system of checks and balances that allowed crime, if there was one, to occur.

Such a Grand Jury may not have a need for lawyers, except as observers.

The new model Grand Jury would have only two avenues of redress, one for recovery of material assets and one avenue of retribution, if a person were proven to have lied.

I, as a voter, am much more interested in assuring that the system be fixed than obtaining vengeance against a person, regardless of how satisfying that would be.

Ed Goertzen
Oshawa
 

 

  
     
     

 
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