Angry in the Great White North
Tony Valeri and his two audio experts
Tuesday, June 07, 2005 at 03:40 PM

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In the House of Commons yesterday:

Hon. Tony Valeri (Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, the member is basing his questions on tapes that have been proven by many audio experts to have been manipulated. Mr. Jack Mitchell, the forensic sound expert hired by the Globe and Mail, said:

These tapes have been edited. This is not a maybe. This is not something that's unexplained. This is not, “Oh, this is odd”. This is a definitive statement. The tapes have been edited.

That is what the hon. member is basing his questions on, on tapes that have in fact been edited as has been stated by experts.

The Liberals went on to quote other experts to bolster their case. I'm curious to see if Jack Mitchell will continue to be used as expert testimony in the coming days given the depth of his credentials.

The Liberals might depend on John Dooher from the CBC, as Mr. Valeri did later in the debate, calling him a "forensic audio engineer":

Hon. Tony Valeri (Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, the hon. member is basing his question on tapes that have been proven by many audio experts to have been manipulated. I can quote from many. John Dooher, a forensic audio engineer hired by the CBC, said:

This sounds to me, not only that this is an edit, but an edit done with something very crude.

But thePolitic has some interesting data on him as well:

He’s an Ottawa record producer who also works on government contracts. Here’s how the magazine, Ottawa Life, described him:

John Dooher began producing records in 1985. Since then, he has produced, written, performed, cogitated, philosophized and engineered music in Ottawa…. Dooher’s label Dark Skippy Records has penetrated the European market with The Radio Kings and is poised to do the same with the upcoming album by New Car Smell.

That’s the CBC’s big expert: an Ottawa producer-musician who calls himself a philosopher while hyping cheesy bands between day-gigs doing contracts for the Liberal government.

Neither is he exactly “independent” from the CBC. In 1996, Dooher joined a few others to circulate an email petition from someone named “Studio Employee” to “save CBC radio.”

So here’s the bottom line: The CBC hired a friendly record producer with government contracts to cast doubt upon the Grewal tapes to support their Liberal friends.

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