Little press notice has been taken (with an interesting French-language exception) of last month’s decision by the Ontario Court of Appeal in the case of Alford v. Canada, a test of the constitutionality of the Liberals’ “National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians” (NSICOP) scheme for safeguarding sensitive national-security information. NSICOP is a “committee of parliamentarians” that’s not technically a committee of Parliament, which is a hint that there is some square-circling going on here.