RCMP Watch

Silver Donald Cameron, The Chronicle Herald
If ever a public official should resign, that official is RCMP Commissioner Guiliano Zaccardelli.
Why? Because the RCMP has been entrusted with extraordinary powers, Canadians are entitled to demand that the national police force be incorruptible, utterly dedicated to the highest principles of the nation. Under Zaccardelli’s leadership, the RCMP has [...]

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Kathleen Harris, Toronto Sun
Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day has personally guaranteed job protection to two RCMP whistleblowers with information on an alleged coverup of internal criminal wrongdoing that implicates Canada’s top cop, Sun Media has learned.
“You have my assurances that our government promotes transparency and encourages people to come forward at any time with information [...]

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The Leader-Post
A Regina RCMP constable facing several criminal charges — including uttering a death threat and assault with a weapon — was not in Regina Provincial Court on Thursday for his first court appearance.
Instead, a lawyer appeared on behalf of Kevin Reid Gregson, 40, and adjourned the matter until December on Gregson’s behalf.

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Shannon Kari, Globe and Mail
The RCMP may have breached the country’s drug laws when it permitted an informant to traffic large amounts of methamphetamine during a Hells Angels investigation, a B.C. Supreme Court judge heard yesterday.
The informant, Michael Plante, was allowed to transport nearly 20 kilograms of methamphetamine in 2003 and early 2004 while he [...]

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Greg Weston, Toronto Sun
RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli has again landed up to his expensive boot-tops in manure over the Maher Arar fiasco after one of his former ministerial bosses rode roughshod over the top cop’s testimony before a parliamentary committee.
This week, former solicitor-general Wayne Easter flatly denied Zaccardelli’s claim the Mounties had briefed their political [...]

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Darren Bernhardt, Regina Leader Post
A veteran RCMP officer sat silent and showed no emotion Tuesday as a Court of Queen’s Bench judge found him guilty of sexual assaulting a drunken female prisoner in the garage of a northern police detachment.
There is no minimum sentence for a sex assault conviction but Const. Thierry Jacques, 32, could [...]

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CBC
Former solicitor general Wayne Easter said he was never told that the RCMP had provided wrong information to the U.S. about Maher Arar.
Speaking before a Commons committee looking into the Arar case, Easter contradicted previous testimony given by RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli.
Last month, Zaccardelli said he had told the government about the RCMP’s actions and [...]

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Meagan Fitzpatrick, CanWest News Service
Wayne Easter, the former solicitor-general who presided during the Arar ordeal, appeared to contradict earlier testimony from RCMP head Giuliano Zacardelli today when he answered questions at a commons committee.
Responding to Justice Dennis O’Connor’s report on the Arar case at the public safety and national security committee, Easter said he was [...]

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Jeff Sallot, Globe and Mail
Former solicitor-general Wayne Easter says the Mounties never admitted to him they had fed the U.S. inaccurate intelligence reports about the Maher Arar security case.
In significant ways, Mr. Easter’s testimony before a House committee Tuesday differs with the version of events provided by RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli last month.
“I was not [...]

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Josh Pringle, CFRA
Wayne Easter says the RCMP didn’t tell him they had given erroneous information to US authorities about Maher Arar.
The former Liberal Solicitor General contradicted the RCMP Commissioner while appearing before a Commons Committee.

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