Paul Jay asks Ombudsman Andre Marin who is responsible and who has been held accountable for “the most massive compromise of civil liberties in Canadian history” Story Transcript PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay in Toronto. One year ago to this week, more than 1,000 people in […]
Author Archives: André Marin
From 1996 to 1998 Andre Marin worked as the Director of Ontario's Special Investigations Unit and then served as Canada's first Ombudsman for the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces. Andre is now a second term Ombudsman who has been in the post since 2005 and was reappointed on June 1, 2010. One of his recent high profile reports, "Caught in the Act", was about the violence surrounding the G-20 in Toronto and was released on December 7, 2010. The most recent report to come out of his office is the 2010/ 2011 Annual report which was released on June 21, 2011 and provides recommendations for government agencies such as Hydro One and the Family Responsibility Office as well as reiterating previous reports such as "Caught in the Act".
