Canadian Parliamentary Library defies trade tribual

[Warren Togami]

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/010828/671130.html

(excerps from article)

Accused of favouring Microsoft, library won't seek new bids for news
service; Budget blown fighting tender challenge
It concluded the library was "discriminatory" in stacking the deck in favour
of software giant Microsoft Corp.'s products and ordered the library to
amend the tender or issue a new one.

But in a rare move, the library is refusing to implement the order because
it claims to have used up its budget for the new monitoring service in legal
costs to defend itself before the tribunal.

He said the library seemed to have an endless supply of money to launch a
legal battle of "David and Goliath proportions" to derail his complaint.