RCMP Watch

(Prince George Citizen) - The relationship between Prince George’s top cop and the the city’s top civilian employee at the local RCMP detachment has been termed a conflict of interest in a report commissioned by the City of Prince George.
The Citizen has learned the report about RCMP Supt. Dahl Chambers and civilian employee Ann Bailey [...]

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Toronto, ON (Canadian Press) - An ex-RCMP cadet who claimed he was rejected from the force because of discrimination should be admitted back into the training program and be compensated for his suffering.
The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruled in favour today of Ali Tahmourpour, a 33-year-old Muslim who dreams of being a Mountie. The Tribunal [...]

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(CTV.ca News Staff) - RCMP deputy commissioner Barbara George said Sunday that she’s being punished for refusing to apologize for something she didn’t do.
On Thursday, George became the first person in 95 years to be held in contempt of Parliament after a vote that ruled she deliberately misled MPs during an appearance before the Public [...]

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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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Ottawa (Canadian Press) - Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day says the RCMP will change the way it handles public disclosure of sensitive information such as the income trust probe that sparked a storm in the last federal election.
Day, fielding questions in the Commons, said the reforms urged by Paul Kennedy, the force’s civilian [...]

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Brodie Fenlon and Omar El Akkad (Globe and Mail) - Former RCMP commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli approved the release of information about a criminal probe into the income trust leak in the middle of the 2006 federal election campaign and directed that a press release name Ralph Goodale, then Liberal finance minister, an RCMP watchdog report [...]

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