A "very distressed" Councillor Brian Skakun confessed to fellow Councillor Debora Munoz that he leaked the Kitty Heller Report to the CBC, Crown counsel Judith Doulis told a Prince George courtroom Tuesday.
Doulis said she intends to call Munoz as witness as in the trial of Skakun, who is accused of violating provincial privacy regulations.
Skakun is accused of leaking confidential documents to the CBC in Aug. 28. He was charged under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act a year later.
Much of the session was devoted to arguments from Skakun's lawyer, Jon Duncan, on whether there was adequate time to prepare a response to an affidavit submitted by Citizen reporter Frank Peebles.
In April 2008 Peebles wrote about the Heller Report, commissioned by the City of Prince George and written by a Vancouver lawyer of the same name, which said there was a conflict of interest between RCMP Supt. Dahl Chambers, then the commanding officer of the Prince George detachment, and Ann Bailey, the city's top civilian employee at the detachment.
Duncan also argued for a wider disclosure of documents from the City of Prince George in relation to the matter.
The trial continues this afternoon.
