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Dick Nadeau

Dick Nadeau Letter to the Editor

Cornwall Standard Freeholder

09 June 2005 

Your insightful editorial of  May 13th titled “Lay it on the table” hit the nail right on the head when you wrote that “At this point, the process cannot afford to be highjacked by any suggestion of bias”. Unfortunately, the appointment of Justice Glaude as Commissioner of our Inquiry by Attorney General Michael Bryant is such an invitation. Having the right person is too important and a judge from the Ontario Superior Court is not that person. 

It also suggests to me that AG Bryant does not fully understand how important this inquiry is to the people of Cornwall. Doesn’t he think that we might have had quite enough of judges from the Ontario Superior Court? Most judges of the Superior Court literally laughed at us with their comments such as those of judge Richard Byers who found Harvey Latour “not guilty enough” to judge JeanPaul Lalonde who called the Project Truth cases “run of the mill”. 

The Jacques Leduc trial gave us judges McKinnon and Chadwick and their circus. It was also Mckinnon and Chadwick who allowed Jacques Leduc’s lawyers to prevail in their fishing expedition and in their vilifying of Perry Dunlop as a diversion to argue a stay. The diversion strategy was totally based on lies, innuendo and conjecture so said the judges of the Ontario Court of Appeal.  

The Project Truth trials were handled by a dozen or so judges from Ontario’s Superior Court and not one could find any accused guilty. It is evident that the sexual molestation of a minor isn’t much of a crime in their eyes  Does anyone honestly think that another judge from that same pool of judges will be any different? Their track record shows otherwise.  

The choice of Justice Glaude is a conflict of interest in itself. We simply cannot, given that this is our last chance, blindly trust Michael Bryant or Justice Glaude.  I shudder at the fact that Glaude and Bishop Durocher know each other. That fact alone is reason enough to say that this process is already tainted. 

Dick Nadeau