(Hat tip: The Patriot)
Judge says he wasn’t taken in by convenient lapses of memory
Jack Aubry, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Tuesday, June 27, 2006Justice John Gomery says witnesses who forgot key information while testifying during hearings on the sponsorship scandal had “deliberate memory blanks” that are tantamount to lying under oath.
In an exclusive interview with CPAC that airs tonight, Judge Gomery says everyone has memory lapses, especially about unimportant events, but it is another matter when the “forgotten” event is one that has “marked” the person.
“If it is a determining factor in someone’s career … and the witness has absolutely no recollections of this event, we can say ‘it is not a memory blank, it is a deliberate memory blank.’ It isn’t a memory blank. It is a lie to say I do not remember,” Judge Gomery says.
When host Pierre Donais of Revue Politique reminded the judge of such witnesses, the judge says it was his impression that they were not telling the truth.
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