shockedcanadian
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Citizens rights.continue to be violated today. Our allies understand this and are thus cuttimg Canadian trade relations. If we cannot stand on values we cannot stand with America, period. The damage RCMP, TPS, OPP and other outfits have done to Canadas goodwill and human rights over decades is a real travesty which will cost Canadas economy a trillion + dollars a decade. https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/rcmp-spies-1970s-indigenous-rights-9.7134112.
The Mounties called it the "Native extremism program." Today, it sounds like a spy novel.
Intelligence dossiers stuffed with documents. Wiretaps. Paid informants. Covert operatives with code numbers like "A-828." A Red Power dissident photo album. Surreptitious surveillance at homes, offices, airports and bars.
But it wasn't fiction.
In fact, newly declassified RCMP Security Service files confirm Canada's Cold War-era domestic intelligence agency infiltrated and sought to disrupt legitimate political Indigenous organizations in the 1970s, in an extensive program of covert surveillance, informants and countersubversion.
The files also corroborate for the first time that the Liberal government in the mid-1970s approved covert RCMP wiretaps to monitor the telephones of the National Indian Brotherhood, known today as the Assembly of First Nations, in Ottawa.
That's no surprise to First Nations leaders like Georges Erasmus, former Dene Nation president and Assembly of First Nations national chief. He always knew the state was watching. Now he has the proof.,............................................
"It was very invasive, and no one should have to live with that," said Erasmus, who later led the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and Aboriginal Healing Foundation.
"I developed an internal tolerance to it. In some ways I kind of laughed at it, at why I would be picked out to be a threat."
The Mounties called it the "Native extremism program." Today, it sounds like a spy novel.
Intelligence dossiers stuffed with documents. Wiretaps. Paid informants. Covert operatives with code numbers like "A-828." A Red Power dissident photo album. Surreptitious surveillance at homes, offices, airports and bars.
But it wasn't fiction.
In fact, newly declassified RCMP Security Service files confirm Canada's Cold War-era domestic intelligence agency infiltrated and sought to disrupt legitimate political Indigenous organizations in the 1970s, in an extensive program of covert surveillance, informants and countersubversion.
The files also corroborate for the first time that the Liberal government in the mid-1970s approved covert RCMP wiretaps to monitor the telephones of the National Indian Brotherhood, known today as the Assembly of First Nations, in Ottawa.
That's no surprise to First Nations leaders like Georges Erasmus, former Dene Nation president and Assembly of First Nations national chief. He always knew the state was watching. Now he has the proof.,............................................
"It was very invasive, and no one should have to live with that," said Erasmus, who later led the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and Aboriginal Healing Foundation.
"I developed an internal tolerance to it. In some ways I kind of laughed at it, at why I would be picked out to be a threat."
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