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Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 08:44:31 -0500
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From: Lynne Moss-Sharman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 1st time Ontario premier will testify under oath (civil suit)
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March 20, 1999 Premier to testify in George suit
By Peter Geigen-Miller -- London Free Press Reporter
Summonses were issued to Premier Mike Harris and two key cabinet ministers
yesterday, requiring them to testify in a lawsuit by the family of slain
native protester Dudley George. The summonses order Harris,
Solicitor-General Bob Runciman and Attorney-General Charles
Harnick to testify under oath in a hearing called examinations for
discovery. It will be the first time an Ontario premier has been questioned
under oath in a civil lawsuit. Summonses in the suit also went out
yesterday to Kenneth Deane, the acting provincial police
sergeant found guilty of criminal negligence causing death in George's
death and other members of the OPP. George was shot by an OPP sniper on
Sept. 6, 1995, after several dozen native people occupied Ipperwash
Provincial Park, saying it was on sacred burial ground. The lawsuit alleges
that Harris directed a police operation at Ipperwash and ordered police to
use a paramilitary tactical response unit to confront the protesters.
Harris and his cabinet colleagues deny the allegations. Deane is scheduled
to be questioned by lawyers for the George family May 12-13, Runciman Sept.
8-9, Harnick Oct. 6-7 and Harris Dec. 8-9.
Harris and the two ministers are required to produce all documents,
photographs, sound and video recordings, e-mail messages and computer
records relating to the case. Murray Klippenstein, lawyer for the George
family, said they would prefer Harris call an inquiry into events at
Ipperwash. Gerry Phillips, Liberal native affairs critic, yesterday
supported the inquiry call. "There is considerable evidence that Harris
and the Tory cabinet were inappropriately involved in the OPP operation at
Ipperwash," Phillips said in a statement. "Only a public inquiry will
reveal the
full story."
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