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To: White Bear who wrote (11126)	4/25/2007 6:46:17 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	of 11633

Ottawa orders return of trust documents STEVEN CHASE 00:00 EDT Saturday, April 21, 2007 globeinvestor.com OTTAWA -- The Harper government is asking a Calgary income trust analyst to give back heavily censored documents Ottawa sent him that detail calculations used to justify last fall's controversial trust tax. Warning that its lawyers have decided the information is top secret, Ottawa is also requesting that BMO Nesbitt Burns analyst Gordon Tait stop sharing this information with other Canadians. Mr. Tait made news headlines earlier this year after he requested details from federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's department on how it determined that trusts were a drain on federal coffers. In response, Finance sent him 28 pages, 13 of which were heavily blacked out. These appeared to detail the calculations and methodology used. Now the Finance Department wants about 18 of those pages back. "We would like to ask for your assistance in returning these pages and also that this information not be disseminated further," a Finance official wrote in a letter to Mr. Tait this week. "It's a bizarre situation. They're trying to put the toothpaste back into the tube," Mr. Tait said. © The Globe and Mail