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Two lawyers will not be able to practise anywhere in Canada for three years after admitting to having a private investigator spy on a Manitoba judge.
The lawyers represented several churches that attempted in 2021 to overturn COVID-19 public health orders that temporarily prevented in-person religious services
WINNIPEG — Two Alberta-based lawyers will not be able to practise anywhere in Canada for three years after admitting to having a private investigator spy on a Manitoba judge.
A previous ex parte order by a judicial justice of the peace said both reports, written by Const. Jeremiah Dumont-Fontaine within four hours of the June 6, 2019 incident, for which he faces an assault charge, had to be turned over to the IIU, which the RCMP contested. Manitoba RCMP told the CBC that the report had already been turned over. IIU civilian director Zane Tessler told the CBC that the decision was significant. “This is one of the first, if not the first [decision] of its kind in Manitoba that deals with defining what is or is not a note,” Tessler said.