What is democracy?
In democratic countries, it is the responsibility of PROSECUTORS to prove to JURORS the defendant is guilty, not the defendant is assumed guilty and has to prove himself/herself not guilty. That is the reason why sometimes prosecutor has to drop the charge since he/she cannot find enough evidence to prove the case in court. Remember the incident several months ago in New Brunswick (?), a young student was raped two years ago, and police found insufficient evidence to charge those boys, and she was bullied and committed suicide.
In undemocratic countries, like ONE party country, that is not the case, government just said you are guilty (e.g. Subversion 23), defendant has to prove he/she is not guilty.
Why it is the responsibility of Government to prove someone is one guilty in the first case? The answer is quite simple. GOVERNMENT has unlimited resource to find evidence, (money and employees), as for defendant, you need a lot of money to prove you are innocent, or has not committed the crime. In Canada, if you hire a defense lawyer, the cost is 500 CAD per hour.
Rob Ford has spent over 300,000 personal money (though City of Toronto can pay his legal fee) to defend himself in the recent lawsuits. He is rich but not a multimillionaire.
Look at the record of Toronto Star. Look at Sarah Thompson fiasco. Each time Toronto Star just posted something, Rob Ford has to spend time (and his own money) to defend, how can he has time to do his job as city Mayor.
Imagine your employee received some unproved phone call or (doctored|?) video, then fire you, what will you do? Put yourself in his position....
My family has been Toronto Star subscriber for 17 years (since 1996), and because of this undemocratic incident, I told my wife to cancel the subscription.
