Harper government wants lifetime gag agreements from Canadian parliamentary staffers

Not a Cdn. lawyer (or any lawyer), but I don’t think it is possible to force employees to sign a document that commits them to covering up illegality. Omerta is not a legal precedent in any system.

I suspect this does give the Harperites a pre-emptive tool with which to discredit anyone who goes to the police with evidence of criminality, and might chill a few people too.

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