• No accreditation is necessary. Press ID must be available on request.
• Journalists, photo and camera people may wish to check with Francine Bastien upon arrival.
• There will be a photo op for still cameras and TV at the start of each session.
• Once inside the hearing room, the cameras cannot leave unless there is a break in the hearings.
• Photographers/camera people are requested not to enter area behind the Commissioner at any time.
• Photographers/camera people are requested not to photograph lawyer’s notes on desks and lecterns at any time.
• Inquiry documents will be available in the media room and may be photographed there.

Media room (adjacent to the hearing room)

• A media room with analog telephone outlets, work tables and chairs will be available for working journalists.
• Speakers and TV monitors with audio in both English, French and floor and the output of the pool TV cameras will be available in the media room.

TV Pool

• Justice Dennis R. O’Connor has agreed to the presence of a limited number of cameras in the hearing room for the purpose of providing pool coverage of the proceedings.
• The Canadian network CPAC will be responsible for all pool feeds.

Interviews

• As is customary for the judiciary, Mr. Justice O’Connor will not give interviews. Commission counsel and lawyers for the parties may be interviewed outside the hearing room.
• Witnesses may be interviewed after their testimony is completed.

Media contact: 
Francine Bastien
Telephone: (613) 996-4741
Cell: (613) 299-6554
E-mail: fbastien@bellnet.ca