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News Thursday, September 25, 2008 A6 Leader-Post leaderpost.com DEFENCE TRADE SHOW Election, protests blamed for cancellation This cancellation relates to the federal election currently underway and restrictions placed on senior government officials participating in public conferences, noted the press release from AFCEA Canada. Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Walt Natynczyk was to have delivered the keynote address at the AFCEA Canada event, and other officers were making presentations as well. But the Privy Council Office recently launched an unprecedented clamp-down on government business during the federal election, slowing the workings of the bureaucracy almost to a crawl in some areas. Meetings between bureaucrats and everyone from consumer advocacy groups to industry representatives have been cancelled out of concern such gatherings may taint the outcome of the federal election.

Tachuk said while the conferences were running into problems because military officers were no longer available to speak, the trade show portion of the event could have proceeded were it not for the excessive security cost Ottawa Citizen police had warned there could be incidents of civil disobedience outside the trade show. We had been notified by the City of Ottawa police that they had picked up intelligence on a potential security threat on the event and (they) brought this to our attention, he explained. This came as a total shock to us. Tachuk said the cost of providing security around the event would have been prohibitive. He declined to discuss the cost of security but did add that the event organizers were responsible for paying it We had a security budget but this far, far surpassed any reasonable expectation of what would be required, he added.

A defence industry official said the price tag was more than $80,000. But officials with the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) Canada organization, one of three events taking place under the Secure Canada umbrella, blamed the cancellation of their event on a recently issued government decree. By DAVID PUGLIESE Canwest News Service The threat of civil disobedience at a defence trade show originally scheduled for next week in Ottawa was the reason for the event being shut down, according to one of its organizers. But others who planned to take part in the two-day event blame a Privy Council Office edict that prevents senior military officers and Defence Department officials from taking part in various aspects of Secure Canada 2008 because of the federal election. And one of the co-ordinators of a disarmament group opposed to Secure Canada 2008 says the trade shows officials are using the protesters as scapegoats.

I think theyre totally exaggerating any kind of threat that we posed, said Richard Sanders of the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade. Our main thing was a candlelight peace vigil. That doesnt seem too threatening. But conference organizer Rick Tachuk said Ottawa SUZUKI 0M3D OffW An interactive map illustrating this report is available www.leaderpost.com by clicking on the road construction map under the Features sec-tioa NORTHWEST: 7th Avenue Robinson Street to Retallack Street: Closed for road construction. 11th Avenue Royal Street to Campbell Street: Closed for storm sewer installation.

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