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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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