The two were respectively then Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s chief of staff and deputy chief of staff at the time that two gas plants in Oakville and Mississauga were cancelled and relocated at enormous public expense. Gagnon appeared to be suggesting a motive for why Livingston might have wanted emails and documents relating to the cancelled plants to disappear. In the spring of 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that expert witnesses generally must be impartial and independent. An Ontario Court of Appeal decision in 2017 dealt specifically with police experts and found they cannot wear two hats — cannot be both investigator and expert, in other words. The trial is on hold pending the judge’s decision Thursday.

Source: National Post September 25, 2017 23:15 UTC