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RCMP News Release in response to a Globe and Mail article - William J.S. Elliott, Commissioner - Lawrence Martin suggested that my use of the title Assistant Deputy Minister in relation to the senior executive communications position the RCMP intends to establish deserves an explanation and the consideration of additional facts. I agree.
As Mr. Martin [...]

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Clara Ho, Edmonton, AB (Canwest News Service) - RCMP Commissioner William Elliott volunteered to be Tasered by his staff, the Mounties revealed on Friday.
Alberta Solicitor General Fred Lindsay and his parliamentary assistant Rob Anderson, were also tasered at the force’s Edmonton K Division headquarters. The three were on a tour of the division’s emergency response [...]

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Ottawa (Canadian Press) - The head of the RCMP has been stung lately by criticism about Tasers and now Commissioner William Elliott has been zapped by one of the electronic guns.
Elliott was willingly Tasered during a visit to Alberta, along with the province’s solicitor-general, Fred Lindsay, and an assistant.
Lindsay said it was Elliott’s idea to [...]

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(Prince Albert Daily Herald) - It’s a fair statement to say that the RCMP is in a state of crisis. It lacks direction, lacks long-term plans for recruit retention and, moreover, lacks a visible leader with the power, passion and energy required to take a cherished organization into the future.
We, however, would like to expand [...]

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Omar El Akkad, Ottawa (Canadian Press) - The head of the RCMP has admitted the police force did not do a good job making information public about the taser controversy, and vowed that changes will be made.
“I believe we need to do a better job in assessing and factoring in the public interest,” RCMP Commissioner [...]

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Rosie Lombardi (InterGovWorld.com) - Privacy organizations are calling for intensified scrutiny and oversight of the RCMP’s information management practices, which have failed to comply with government policy for almost 20 years.
Serious issues were brought to light in a recent audit of the RCMP’s exempt files conducted by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada [...]

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(CBC News) - MPs voted Thursday to find the RCMP’s deputy commissionerin contempt of Parliament, accusing her of misleading the House of Commons with the testimony she provided into the so-called pension scandal.
The motion to find Barbara George in contempt was introduced by Liberal Shawn Murphy, who heads the public accounts committee that heard her [...]

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Jessica Leeder, Ottawa (Globe and Mail) - A high-ranking Mountie who could be cited for contempt of Parliament says she has been misunderstood by a parliamentary committee that has been misled by RCMP whistleblowers.
Deputy Commissioner Barbara George testified under oath before the House of Commons public accounts committee three times last year in an effort [...]

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Essica Leeder, Ottawa (Globe and Mail) - A high-ranking Mountie ensnared in the RCMP pension scandal said the House of Commons’ top legal officer privately offered her a chance to avoid becoming “roadkill” in a campaign to have her cited for contempt of Parliament.
The proposal by veteran law clerk Rob Walsh would have required that [...]

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(Toronto Star Editorial) A report this week has finally shed some light on the RCMP’s unprecedented intervention in the last federal election campaign, but it still leaves some key questions about this troubling episode unanswered.
It’s hard to fault Paul Kennedy, the chair of the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP. As Kennedy noted in [...]

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