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Originally Posted by GioforPM
You can't plead the Fifth. But you can rely on s. 13 of the Charter:
13 A witness who testifies in any proceedings has the right not to have any incriminating evidence so given used to incriminate that witness in any other proceedings, except in a prosecution for perjury or for the giving of contradictory evidence.
So if they testify under subpoena the Crown likely has made a choice not to prosecute those individuals. Though it can get tricky if Witness A says things that incriminate Witness B and vice versa.
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Related question for those of you who do such thing: does the info collected by the NHL, Hockey Canada and any other org (other than the London Police Force) have evidentiary value to either Crown or Defence?
(It also might be a "be careful what you ask for" item as nobody really knows what's in those statements.)