HALIFAX – The Sexual Abuse Network of Canada has launched an online petition calling for a public inquiry into the case of Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh.
Network director Dave Mantin said Tuesday that he isn’t satisfied with the internal review announced last week by federal Justice Minister Peter MacKay into why it took 12 years to extradite MacIntosh to Canada after several sex-related charges were first laid in 1995.
The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal quashed MacIntosh’s 18 convictions on charges of gross indecency and indecent assault of boys in the 1970s, citing the violation of his right to a quick trial.
Ottawa says it will do an analysis of the government’s actions in relation to the extradition, passport and border control aspects of the MacIntosh case.
Mantin wants to know why a Department of Justice attorney signed off on a deal that resulted in MacIntosh’s passport being renewed twice, in 1997 and 2002, despite a Canada-wide warrant existing for his arrest.
As well, he alleges the Canadian embassy in New Delhi had documents showing that MacIntosh was travelling back and forth to Montreal despite the warrant for his arrest.
His petition, which went online Sunday, had 295 supporters as of Tuesday afternoon.
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