The journalist’s request for information was to the Canadian government. The replies came from Irving Shipbuilding
As reported in the National Post on Friday, a Postmedia reporter recently sent information requests to the ministries of National Defence and Public Services and Procurement Canada. The journalist had received a tip about alleged welding problems aboard HMCS Harry DeWolf, the first of the Royal Canadian Navy’s new Arctic patrol warships. The ship was launched last year and is undergoing fitting-out now. The Postmedia journalist sought information about the alleged welding problems.
Irving has every right to reach out to journalists, and to go to court if it feels it has been wronged. That is not in dispute. But why are federal ministries farming out media requests to the private sector? Why are they revealing to companies the identities of journalists pursuing stories about those companies?
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