
"I take strong issue with the idea that House resources would be used to attack secretly a member of the House."
Vic Toews using House resources to publicly attack Canadians:
"...stand with us or with the child pornographers,"

An open court that permits access to both court proceedings and court records is of fundamental importance to a free and democratic society. This ensures that justice is not only done but seen to be done. This principle of openness is founded in historic common law principles which have been referred to by the Supreme Court of Canada in decisions such as Nova Scotia (Attorney General) v. MacIntyre [1982] 1 S.C.R. 175, wherein Dickson, C.J. for the majority of the court stated the following: Many times it has been urged that the ‘privacy’ of litigants requires that the public be excluded from court proceedings. It is now well established, however, that covertness is the exception and openness the rule. Public confidence in the integrity of the court system and understanding of the administration of justice are thereby fostered. As a general rule the sensibilities of the individuals involved are no basis for exclusion of the public from judicial proceedings.
3.0 Electronic Access
Subject to the exclusions set out in 2.3, electronic access is given to court record information of the Court of Appeal and the Court of Queen’s Bench in Manitoba respecting civil, family and adult criminal proceedings. At this time, there is no electronic access to Provincial Court records. The following information may be obtained electronically via the courts web site http://www.manitobacourts.mb.ca or at
http://www.jus.gov.mb.ca.
- court file number and title of the proceedings
- a listing of the documents filed, the document number and date filed with the court, document
- name and brief notes as to the contents of the document
- names of court parties and the name of their lawyer, contact information for the lawyer
- the date and time of next court hearing(s) in the court proceeding
- reference to any related court files
- general information as to available court dates to assist in the scheduling of a matter before the
- court
- a view of the daily court hearing list for court locations throughout Manitoba
- prejudgment and postjudgment interest tables from April 1993