And, sure enough, the suspect sets about to prove his credentials. Never mind that this sting is the stuff of countless trashy novels and B-grade screenplays. Never mind that the sting has been described in dozens of recent judgments and media reports in BC alone. Never mind all that. The RCMP need a publication ban on the method and they are using the Dagenais route to the Supreme Court of Canada to get it.
Judges seem to grant the ban about half the time.
In the meantime, the RCMP has selected one case, Mentuck, where the ban was denied to take to the Supreme Court of Canada. Recent top court decisions do seem to some observers to be influenced more by the particular facts of the case than by all of the social situations which such a top decision will affect and influence. The sting in the O.N.E. case was more elaborate. The facts in O.N.E. serve to illustrate, far more than the Mr. Big scenario, that police entrapment can involve serious infringements of rights. Resulting state-ments by the suspect should not be admissible against her in any civil society.