Wednesday, December 15, 1999
Canucks left in dark by plan
The federal Info 2000 team yesterday announced its plans for telling Canadians about millennium bug problems, or lack thereof, as the clocks slip over from Dec. 31 to Jan. 1. Those plans include keeping Canadians in the dark -- information-wise if not literally -- between suppertime on New Year's Eve and lunchtime New Year's Day. The government's Y2K national monitoring centre will be off limits to media, forcing reporters to rely on officials to provide briefings at National Defence headquarters. And the initial game plan announced yesterday calls for no briefings in the crucial hours around midnight. The first briefing would be at 5 p.m. Dec. 31, with a follow up around 11:30 a.m. Jan. 1. The proposal met with outrage from reporters, who demanded hourly briefings though the night. Guy McKenzie, the feds' Y2K spokesman agreed to consider holding more briefings, but said the government would only hold briefings if they could confirm reports of Y2K problems. Previous story: Touched by a ruling Next story: 3 years for herbal 'cure' death
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