Opinion: Supreme Court ruling will chill reporting on scandals

The two biggest political scandals in the news right now — the Mark Norman trial, and the Trudeau/SNC-Lavalin controversy — were exposed by a reliable source who secretly shared information with a journalist. Increasingly, this is only viable way that scandals are brought to the public’s attention in this country.
More traditional methods of uncovering wrongdoing or criminality — access to information laws that disclose government documents, and whistleblower protections