Somebody turn off the tap!

Lawyer Richard Peck's report on The Leak has been released and it's up for download now on the city website (or at least an executive summary of the report).

Peck has decided not to look into the Whodunnit aspect of the Olympic document saga, leaving it up to an ongoing VPD investigation.

In short, Peck found that oversight and accountability in Vancouver's code of conduct are "lacking."

"The code itself is fundamentally flawed in that there is no independence from the city built into the code," Peck writes. "Alleged contraventions of the code are to be reported to the mayor regardless of the complaint.

"... There is no provision in the code for an alternative reporting regime if an individual wishes to make a complaint about the mayor. This current regime is particularly problematic given the party-based governance model in place in the City of Vancouver."

Peck makes several recommendations to tighten up council's in camera system, including the creation of a super secret electronic crypt for super secret documents and hiring an ethics commissioner.

His least hi-tech solution? Marking confidential documents "confidential." Yup.

Here's one: Tap Gary Mason's phoneline.

"The obvious needs to be stated," Peck writes. "The proper functioning of the city business ultimately depends on the personal integrity of those charged with the responsibility of carrying it out. In the end, internal protections can only go so far."