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P-33.1 - Act to protect the confidentiality of journalistic sources

Section 2
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2. For the purposes of this Act,
“journalist” means a person whose main occupation is to contribute directly, either regularly or occasionally, for consideration, to the collection, writing or production of information for dissemination by the media, or anyone who assists such a person; and
“journalistic source” means a source whose anonymity is essential to the relationship between the source and the journalist to whom the source confidentially transmits information on the journalist’s undertaking not to divulge the identity of the source.
2018, c. 26, s. 2.
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