In 2010, Toronto Sun editorial page editor and columnist Rob Granatstein recorded an editorial board meeting with Rob Ford, who was a Toronto city councillor at the time.

Now Toronto mayor, Ford is the subject of a libel suit for comments he allegedly made during this meeting.

In 2010, Toronto Sun editorial page editor and columnist Rob Granatstein recorded an editorial board meeting with Rob Ford, who was a Toronto city councillor at the time.

Now Toronto mayor, Ford is the subject of a libel suit for comments he allegedly made during this meeting.

This week, Granatstein, who is now senior producer and director of Canada.com, relistened to the recording – the only recording – of what was said.

On the website this morning, he wrote about what he legally could do with the tape:

“As it turns out, that tape isn’t mine, every lawyer agreed on that fact. Under the Copyright Act, even though I taped the meeting on my recorder, then took it home and put it on my home computer because I thought it might come in handy down the road, the tape belonged to the Toronto Sun, my former employer.”

Read Granatstein’s full article here.