Critics Decry Surveillance Of Canadian Journalist As Part Of ‘Horrifying’ Culture Shift

‘Canadian free speech advocates slammed recent revelations that Montreal police tracked a journalist’s cell phone calls, text messages, and locations in an attempt to identify one of his sources, who was leaking details of an internal police investigation.
La Presse columnist Patrick Lagacé, the target in the case, called the move “indefensible,” stating in an interview on Monday that the approval of a warrant to spy on a journalist was “incredibly aggressive.”
“To me, this was a great pretext to try to investigate a reporter who has done numerous stories in the past that have embarrassed the service,” he said. “This is a big thing in a country like Canada. Police were permitted to spy on a journalist under very, very thin motives on a secondary part of a criminal investigation.”’
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