One way or another, when Ontario Court Judge Tim Lipson walks into courtroom 125 at Old City Hall on Friday for the resumption of the gas plants trial, it will be to a case on the brink. Lead prosecutor Tom Lemon may announce he’s dropping some of the six charges against David Livingston and Laura Miller. Questions about the $1-billion cancellation cost had opposition parties howling for then Energy Minister Chris Bentley to produce some records. How then, after an Ontario Provincial Police investigation called Project Hampden that lasted more than four years, has it come to this, that the case is hanging by a thread? And if it seemed a police mistake to have allowed Gagnon to become enmeshed in the case, it wasn’t.

Source: National Post November 02, 2017 22:52 UTC