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	Silmser Videotape Played at Inquiry SQL Fusion [Canada] April 17, 2007 http://www.theinquiry.ca/Silmser_video.hide.php Cornwall (Staff) — David Silmser may never return to the stand at the Cornwall Public Inquiry, but his voice once again echoed throughout the hearings room today. Commission officials, at the request of the Ontario Provincial Police, played a videotape of a statement Silmser gave to police in February 1994 during which he alleges he was sexually abused by both Rev. Charles MacDonald and now-deceased probation officer Ken Seguin. Throughout the video, which was not broadcast on the inquiry's website in order to comply with publication bans and confidentiality requests, Silmser is mostly calm and quiet, speaking in a controlled manner about the abuse he says he suffered as young boy and as a teenager. There's only one hint of the anger Silmser expressed while testifying in person at the inquiry earlier this year. At one point, officers explained why they needed to complete a full interview despite Silmser's assertions he had to leave at a specific time in order to pick up his wife from work and be at home to meet his two children who were returning from school. Silmser is observed standing up and leaving the room suddenly but is quickly brought back in and the interview resumes. Silmser suddenly left the witness stand during testimony Feb. 1 but returned four days later. He then spent a day and a half on the stand before doctors determined he was incapable of completing cross-examination.
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