Somalia Cover Up: A Commissioner's Journal

by Peter Desbarats

After forty years of watching politicians up close, veteran newspaperman Peter Desbarats reckoned he was as hardened an observer as any; but the effrontery of the Chr?tien government in shutting down its own commission of inquiry because, apparently, its deliberations were becoming embarrassing, amazed even him. It was unprecedented, it was an attack on judicial independence and the effectiveness of democratic institutions in Canada, and it was wrong...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0771026846
• ISBN13: 9780771026843
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"