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Wednesday, October 21, 1970

This Principal Crown Counsel would perform, with certain exceptions,

He would assist

the various tasks imposed on the attorney General. by the Bill.

the Director of the Anti-Corruption Branch to maintain a proper balance

between the roquirements of an investigation and the need not to interfore

unjustifiably with the privacy of members of the public and public servants.

On penalties for offences, he felt severity alone was unlikely

to operate as an effective deterrent unless persons tempted to engage in

corruption wore convinced there was a substantial risk they would be detected,

prosecuted and punished.

He had no doubt many who had made large sums by bribery in past

years wore froe to enjoy their illicit profits because of the inadequacy of

presant powers of investigation.

Need For Increased Powers

For those roasons, he thought if any real progress was to be made

in tho roduction of bribery, those responsible for the detection of these

offences must be given increased powers unpalatable though some of them

seomod.

If some infringement of traditional libortios and privacy was

involved, he believed it was a price the community ought to be prepared to

pay if it really wished to see corruption ousted from public life.

If it was not ready to surrender some of these libertios, then it

could not easily, in the future, complain that the Government was "roluctant

to tackle the evil with sufficient vigour."

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