It seems only appropriate that on the very day Mike Duffy returned to the Senate, the RCMP Commissioner should appear before a Senate committee and show once again why he still doesn't get it.And that a time when the RCMP is being rocked by allega…
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Montreal Simon: The Duffy Trial: Why the RCMP Owes Canadians an Explanation
When Justice Charles Vaillancourt acquitted Mike Duffy, he brought down his gavel on the head of quite a few others.He savaged Stephen Harper's PMO for the way it had tried to cover-up a scandal. He heaped scorn on the Senators who had treated Du…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why Justin Trudeau Should Fire the RCMP Commissioner
When the RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson was working for the Con regime, I couldn't help feeling that he was turning the force into the Harper Police.Or help wondering whether he was willingly collaborating with that sinister mob, or whether like …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Michael Harris: Have the Mounties Become Harper’s Private Police?
A few days ago I wrote a post where I wondered why the RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson has so far failed to explain the reason his investigators decided not to charge Nigel Wright for his role in the Duffy scandal.Even though he promised to do that more than a year
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Duffy Cover-Up: Why the RCMP Must Explain Itself
Now that we know that Stephen Harper's lawyer believed that Nigel Wright had Harper sign off on a five-point plan to payoff Mike Duffy. That good to go really meant good to go. And now that we know this:Donald Bayne, Duffy’s defence lawyer, read from the transcript of a police interview
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Parliament Hill Gunman, and the Madness of the Con Regime
More than four months after Michael Zehaf-Bibeau stormed Parliament Hill the RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson has finally released the video the gunman made shortly before he was killed.Or at least most of the video… Minus the eighteen seconds the RCMP removed, but will not explain why.And what is only too clear
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Open letter to RCMP commissioner Bob Paulson on climate change and national security
In this open letter to RCMP commissioner Bob Paulson, Ben West challenges the RCMP’s labeling of environmentalists as a threat to Canada’s national security. The post Open letter to RCMP commissioner Bob Paulson on climate change and national security appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Parliament Hill Shooting: What is the RCMP Hiding?
Almost as soon as the shooting stopped, and not long after he emerged from his closet, Stephen Harper declared that Canada was under attack by the dark forces of ISIS.And starting calling the dead gunman, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, an ISIS terrorist. Even though he was a mentally ill crack addict.And a
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Peter MacKay and the Great War on Marijuana and the Police
I suppose it was too good to be true. Most things in Harperland are like that eh? Any good idea that sticks its head above the ground is mown down by the ghastly Cons.So one moment I'm pleasantly surprised by the RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson, telling a reporter that marijuana use is
Continue readingMusings on Canadian Politics: RCMP commissioner Bob Paulson needs to re-examine approach to sexual harassment allegations
RCMP commissioner Bob Paulson, testifying before a Senate committee investigating sexual harassment and bullying in the RCMP, has dismissed allegations of harassment and bullying. “I can’t be continually defending against outlandish claims that have not been tested or established, but yet are being put forward as though they are gospel
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Out of the Cake: A response to the Commissioner, Dr. Mike Webster, R. Psych.
Let me begin by quoting David A. Brown, QC Chair of the Task Force on Governance and Cultural Change in the RCMP; you know, one of those “cake dwellers”. In the Task …
Continue readingNorthern Insight: What’s the next dump of grungy news?
There’s more bad news coming about the RCMP, including information on unprofessional conduct in the Surrey Six gangland murder investigation. In a May internal memo, Commissioner Bob Paulson warned that several salacious incidents were about to surface. He said, “Sadly there is a lot to choose from if you want to
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: RCMP change not welcome after all
Almost two months ago, I wrote Rewarding incompetence and stated my hope that, under its new leader, RCMP had turned a corner toward an era of accountability and respectability: “That [William] Elliott’s tenure was a costly failure is made clear by comments to the Globe and Mail by his replacement,
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Rewarding incompetence
William Elliott was the first civilian Commissioner of the RCMP. An abject failure while heading Canada’s once esteemed police agency, Elliott departed recently. Like disgraced predecessor Giuliano Zaccardelli, this man with little police experience is headed for an Interpol sinecure. The RCMP is further punished by having to pay the salary
Continue readingQuelle surprise! Harper muzzles top dog Mountie.
It’s not enough to exhibit iron-fisted control over his own party members and the media but Mr. Harper is making sure that theConservative message is also dictated to the RCMP. Self-censorship is almost tolerable in the ranks of one’s own party but muzzling the RCMP is a crime against all
Continue readingQuelle surprise! Harper muzzles top dog Mountie.
It’s not enough to exhibit iron-fisted control over his own party members and the media but Mr. Harper is making sure that the Conservative message is also dictated to the RCMP. Self-censorship is almost tolerable in the ranks of one’s own party but muzzling the RCMP is a crime against
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