The site in question, Paul Martin Time.ca, is quite frankly a standard satirical website. A site that discusses government policies and pokes some fun at the P.M. while they're at it. It's hard to imagine why this would draw such ire from the P.M.'s office.
Dru Oja Jay, developer of the site says:
I woke up on Wednesday morning to a phone call from a friendly guy named Tim, who informed me that I had one hour to take down the website, PaulMartinTime.ca, or he would set the lawyers loose on our asses (that's not a quote, but it's an accurate summary).The press release from Paul Martin Time.ca concerning this can be found here.
In between his friendly but businesslike remarks, he dropped a few remarks intended to make me nervous. He said, for example, that he "had a little trouble getting through privacy.ca, but they're no longer supporting your cause." If we had in fact been using privacy.ca, that would be pure power-play. It would mean that he had intimidated (legally or otherwise) a company whose function it is to protect the identity of people who use it into breaking its sole mandate. As it turns out, we don't use privacy.ca; the address of Rob Maguire, the person who registered paulmartintime.ca, is publically available, for all with an internet connection to see.
Paul Martin Time.ca may be a lefty site but anyone who criticizes Paul Martin can't be all bad...