RCMP Watch

(The Leader-Post) - Having recently spent an inordinate and increasing amount of time assisting with complaints of racism from RCMP officers, cadets, and RCMP civilian staff, we are left with extra questions when tragedies such as the recent RCMP shootings at White Bear and Muskowekwan First Nations occur.
What makes us even more uneasy is that, [...]

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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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(CBC News) - The Ontario Provincial Police will investigate whether there was any criminal misconduct involved in the management of the troubled RCMP insurance plan, the Mounties announced Wednesday.
“I have asked the OPP to conduct this investigation, and the RCMP will cooperate fully,” RCMP Commissioner William Elliott said in a press release.
The OPP have already [...]

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CBC News
Former public safety minister Anne McLellan says she did everything in her power to deal with problems in the RCMP, and that included being tough on former commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli.
The ex-minister, a Liberal, testified Thursday before an all-party committee in Ottawa looking into problems in the national police force.

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OTTAWA (Canadian Press) — The new commissioner of the RCMP says he wants to change the force’s culture to allow rank-and-file members to speak up about problems without fear for their jobs.
William Elliott, who’s formally been on the job less than a month, told a House of Commons committee Friday that a senior task force [...]

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Melanie Adams, 580 CFRA Radio
The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are being asked to look into the investigation into the pension and insurance scandal within the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
RCMP Commissioner William Elliot, speaking before a Commons Committee Friday, said a review has been ordered of the investigation carried out by Ottawa Police, and that he’s [...]

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Kathryn May, Ottawa Citizen
A group of RCMP officers and a civilian employee who jeopardized their careers to get the force’s brass to investigate the mismanagement of the Mounties’ pension fund should be given commendations by Parliament, recommended the Commons committee investigating the scandal.
The recommendation comes from MPs on the public accounts committee, who heard testimony [...]

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Barbara George, the first high-ranking Mountie threatened with contempt of Parliament for misleading MPs, says she will fight until she’s exonerated and reinstated in her job.
Kathryn May, The Ottawa Citizen
Exclusive: Suspended RCMP deputy commissioner Barbara George, who lost her job after being accused of perjury and becoming the public face of the Mounties’ pension-fund fiasco, [...]

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Kathryn May, CanWest News Service
Barbara George, the first high-ranking Mountie threatened with contempt of Parliament for misleading MPs, says she will fight until she is exonerated and reinstated in her job.
The deputy commissioner, who could have been an inside contender to be the country’s top Mountie, was suspended three months ago in the fallout [...]

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