As of May 2005, please note that all public hearings will take place from
10:00 a.m.
to
4:30 p.m.
at :
The Algonquin Room
Old
City Hall
111 Sussex Drive
Ottawa, Ontario
- 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
