Lawyer wants Fantino suspended for comments
Updated: Sat Jul. 19 2008 8:10:20 PM
The Canadian Press
TORONTO — The lawyer for an aboriginal protester wants the Ontario government to temporarily suspend the commissioner of the provincial police force and urgently investigate comments he made to the protester during last year's aboriginal day of action.
Peter Rosenthal, lawyer for Shawn Brant, told a news conference in Toronto on Saturday that threatening comments made by Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Julian Fantino in wiretapped conversations with his client on June 29, 2007, and testimony under oath during a preliminary inquiry, suggest his conduct needs to be investigated.
"They should suspend Commissioner Fantino as a commissioner ... and have a quick investigation," said Rosenthal.
He also said he wants Premier Dalton McGuinty to read the transcripts and "then consider whether or not it's appropriate for Mr. Fantino to remain commissioner of the OPP."
The wiretap documents suggest the OPP was minutes away from moving in on First Nations blockades on Highway 401 during the aboriginal day of action.
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