Not Fair

The American blogs that've been covering the Adscam publication ban are starting to really annoy me.

Yes, the publication ban isn't necessary and it's probably even wrong for Justice Gomery to have implemented it, but the way Canada is being portrayed is starting to frustrate me.

Justice Gomery did not implement the ban in order to help out the Liberal Party, he implemented the ban because he was legally obligated to ensure that the three "explosive" witnesses each received a fair trial.

Unlike what some American blogs are portraying, Canada's judiciary, is for the most part, free from political influence in proceedings like this. It's irritating when Americans try to portray Canada as some kind of third-world nation in which Justice Gomery implemented the publication ban because Paul Martin told him too.

The ban was implemented in order to avoid impacting a potential jury pool - something I consider unnecessary, but I also consider it unnecessary when uninformed American blogs and their self-loathing Canadian counterparts up here play along with the whole idea that Gomery implemented the ban to "protect his liberal bosses". That's ridiculous and they should know that.