What I do not understand is, Apotex was being run by Barry's family and friends after his death. You would think these people would be most supportive of the TPS investigating the case. Yet at least one of these executives blocked the TPS by legal objections from Barry's office, computer and files for four weeks.
If I were in charge at Apotex, I would have told the TPS. "You can have access to everything you want, we would just like an Apotex representative in attendence while you are doing your search, to prevent the the loss of Apotex proprietary info".
I am pretty sure the TPS would not have a problem with that condition.
The proprietary issues were paramount as they should have been. One must protect intellectual property from theft, no matter what. You cannot trust that a police officer or two will 'do the right thing' nor anyone outside of the company. Fiduciary duty first in these cases as Tighthead points out.