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February 8, 2024 —

CBC News contacted the attorney for the Caspian defendants and attorneys for the other parties named in the case. None of them answered.

One of the lawyers involved in the case told CBC News that the parties had signed a confidentiality agreement and could not reveal the details of the settlement or what led to it.

That doesn't sit well with Neil McArthur, director of the Center for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba.

“People want to know what happened,” McArthur said. “I think it's really somewhere between disturbing and shocking to have it all shut down like this.

“If there's a settlement, it means something happened that shouldn't have happened or they're not going to pay, they're going to go to court to defend themselves.”

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