[Infowarrior] - Ottawa to probe report that anti-terror unit blueprints found in trash

[Richard Forno]

(c/o Dissent)

Ottawa to probe report that anti-terror unit blueprints found in trash
Last Updated: Thursday, March 20, 2008 | 10:38 AM ET
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/03/20/blueprints-ottawa.html


Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said on Thursday that the government
will look into a report that blueprints for a new building for the
military's counterterrorism unit were found in a pile of trash in downtown
Ottawa.

The Ottawa Citizen reported Thursday that a passerby discovered the plans
for the layout of a new building going up at Canadian Forces Base Trenton on
top of a pile of garbage on the busy Bank Street in the Glebe.

The blueprints stamped with Department of Defence markings detail the
location of security fences, the electrical grid system and layout of
offices and other rooms, according to the Ottawa newspaper.

The plans, dated March 5, 2007, are for the new building for the Canadian
Joint Incident Response Unit, created post-Sept. 11 to respond to
large-scale attacks.

Day said he is awaiting for a detailed report on the incident to determine
what happened, what type of documents were involved and whether there's a
need to implement new systems.

"If a security breach of some kind has taken place, then clearly that's a
huge concern for me," Day said. "We'll wait for all the details and see
exactly what that was."

The newspaper said Anthony Salloum and his wife spotted the seven rolls of
Defence Department documents on March 13 but only picked up one of them.

Salloum, who works for the Rideau Institute, later showed them to his
colleagues to try to figure out what the documents were and then revealed
them to the Citizen.

The Citizen says the Rideau Institute was arranging to return the blueprints
to the Defence Department.