Dover fires back at police representative
Last Updated: Thursday, December 14, 2006 | 3:09 PM AT
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Attorney General Mildred Dover stood in the P.E.I. legislature Wednesday to respond to a Nova Scotia lawyer who publicly questioned her credibility this week.
'That language, I would suggest, is a breach of Mr. Fisher's own code of ethics.'— Mildred Dover
David Fisher of the Police Association of Nova Scotia, which represents Charlottetown police, was on the Island this week lobbying against changes to the Police Act. Speaking to municipal officers, he accused Dover of displaying "underhandedness and sneakiness" in the way she prepared the amendments.
"That language is totally inappropriate and unacceptable," said Dover.
"He operates under the Canadian Bar Association's code of professional conduct. The code says, Mr. Speaker, and I do have it with me, and I quote, 'he should take care not to weaken or destroy public confidence in legal institutions by broad irresponsible allegations of corruption or partiality ….'
"That language, I would suggest, is a breach of Mr. Fisher's own code of ethics."
Municipal police officers on P.E.I. are upset about proposals to create a police commissioner to deal with public complaints about the police. Earlier this week, they called for Dover's resignation because they feel they were left out of the consultation process for the new act.
Dover says police were consulted over the summer, but the unions complain that the final amendments to the act took them by surprise.
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