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Nothing short of an independant agency comprised of citizens not connected to the rcmp will suffice in this situation. Ask yourself, what does the rcmp have to hide? They should welcome an independant committee of citizens. After all, if the rcmp is supposedly protecting us from criminal elements, who is protecting us from the rcmp?? If they have nothing to hide they should welcome this with open arms!
 

Anonymous, read the front page of the Globe this morning. The headline reads "THE MACHINATIONS OF MR. YOUNG: HOW A LIAR CONNED THE MOUNTIES". This story ran in the Ottawa Citizen and the Globe and Mail. Thankfully we have fundamental freedoms that allow stories like this to be written. Interestingly enough the rcmp went to court in an attempt to prevent this from ever being written. Our national police force went to court to hide this from the very people the rcmp is supposedly protecting, you and I. Its a must read story. Which brings me back to debruyckere and his troubling links to the bc liberals. When will we ever get to the truth?
 

Gary:

Please double-check. So far I haven't found the story you mention in The Globe and Mail or in the Ottawa Citizen.

And since they're not associated, I'm just wondering if you saw it in another CanWest newspaper, or what.

Would you let us know? Thanks.
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I found the story easily Mary and it is the GlowBall. I just googled "HOW A LIAR CONNED THE MOUNTIES" without the quotes and it came right up.

Amazing story it is too. I saved it as a pdf. to reread later, only scanned it quickly.

I know why the RCMP are so resistant to having an independent body audit/investigate/review them (whatever you'd like to call it). But better they bite the bullet now and gain some integrity and pride and respect while they still can.
 

Mary if you go online to www.theglobeandmail.com you can't miss it. It was the front page all across Canada!
 

Gary, I'd mail my copy of The Globe and Mail to you if you'd like to verify that there's nothing about THE MACHINATIONS OF MR YOUNG on its front page nor on the inside pages. But with your help, I went online and found it there.

geo: I don't know how you can be so sure that the story was on The Globe's front pages all across Canada. So thanks for the tip. I would've completely missed it, without the help you both provided.

I really don't know what to make of the story. It's never just a simple "Him bad, Him good" in that hellish reality where some people live and work.

I hope people will look it up and read it (6 pages) for themselves. I've copied the title and editor's introduction here:


'The machinations of Mr. Young': How a liar conned the Mounties
Globe and Mail Editor's Note: The article that follows is incomplete. That is not normally something we do. Usually we make our work as complete as possible. In this case, we are hobbled by legal restrictions.
The story is about a man who became an RCMP informant and was eventually enrolled in the Witness Protection program in spite of ample warning that he was an unreliable liar.
This individual went on to commit a heinous crime. We can neither describe the details of the murder nor the current identity of the killer.
The Globe and Mail publishes this story today in conjunction with The Ottawa Citizen, a highly unusual act in itself, and one which speaks to the importance the editors of the two newspapers place on this matter. Greg McArthur and Gary Dimmock researched and wrote this story at The Citizen. Greg is now a reporter with The Globe and Mail. For legal reasons it was modified jointly with The Citizen after he left.
Both Greg McArthur and The Citizen have been waging a legal battle to publish it for the past six months. A court ruling yesterday allowed us to tell this part of the story.
But this is more than just the story of an individual gone bad. It is an issue of public policy. But the blanket legal requirement of the Witness Protection Act against ever disclosing the identity of a person accepted into the program — no matter how awful his subsequent actions — inhibits our efforts to not just tell this story, but to examine the RCMP's role in this affair.
Edward Greenspon, Editor-in-chief

GREG MCARTHUR AND GARY DIMMOCK

Globe and Mail, and Ottawa Citizen
 

Good morning, Geo, Gary:

Well, another day another edition of The Globe and Mail. Imagine my surprise this morning, 23 March, when I opened our copy of The Globe and Mail to see a banner headline across the top of the front page which, unlike the one you saw, says:

The Secret Agent who conned the Mounties! How a fast-talking Victoria man took the RCMP for hundreds of thousands of dollars as an informant with a code name E8060, provided no useful informtion, and ended up as a police-protected killer. (Pp.A14-15.)

Same story, though. With photo of the Saanich house where the guy grew up.

Here's what bothers me, as the editor of this insignificant small blog and as a citizen of a parliamentary democracy:

1) The RCMP didn't enact the "Witness Protection Act", did they? This is federal legislation. Needless to say, the police are obliged to follow the laws of the land.

2) I'm terribly uncomfortable whenever a specific group (whether an ethnic group, political, religions, professions, or workers such as police) is identified as a target. The next step down the slippery slope is to suggest that the targeted group may be legitimately abused by the public. I mean, hello??

3) My gosh, there are people trying to blame the RCMP even for the loss of B.C. Rail! Ask why.

4) This story of a protected witness going wrong, has nothing to do with the "sale" of B.C. Rail so, unless or until it does, it's an inappropriate topic here.

OK?

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I think the relevant point is you can't trust everything the rcmp tells us. I didn't know the lead investigator in the bc rail case had such close links to the bc liberals, did you? Can somebody, maybe Robin Matthews who is very smart, make the comparision to one Peter Montague and something called the Glen Clark Deck Affair? How can you investigate the bc rail deal and not go to the very top? If you have links, strong links to the top doesn't this affect your ability to be impartial and above reproach?? I would say thats a conflict that should have been reported asap. I have read those documents filed by the lawyers very carefully and also read Robins stuff. Is the rcmp telling us that cn was somehow defrauded in the bc rail deal?? Remember bc rail was stolen from bc citizens and given to cn. If cn is a victim, how does that jive with the fact all of us were robbed of our asset??
 

anonymous:

Excellent questions! I'm glad you are asking them, thinking about them, tossing them back and forth, and not asking me to take a position for or against anybody or anything in the B.C. Rail affair. Bravo!

I have no problem with people investigating the RCMP's role in the B.C. Rail affair -- or assessing Gordon Campbell's role -- or Gary Coleman's role. In fact, don't you find it odd that those public figures are NOT investigated?

How often have Gordon Campbell's plans for this province been weighed -- in comparison to the amount of time spent weighing the ulterior motives of the RCMP? You get my point.

What does trouble me is when we're virtually told (as Mason did in that December article) to denounce the RCMP. And just co-incidentally, the RCMP can't exactly speak up in its own defence, either, can they.

You bet I'd like to know how Brueckyere was placed in that position without taking into account the appearance of a conflict of interest. But the defence lawyers have taken care of that, right?

I hope you continue to read, assess, opine, and weigh in here with your thoughts. Good to hear from you.
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Just remembered Bill 6, which passed third reading in the B.C. Legislature last week and became law.

It stipulates that the findings of a Public Inquiry will not automatically become known to the public which, of course, paid for the Public Inquiry.

Whatever is found will go to the Cabinet which, at its discretion, may withhold the information. The public may beg and plead to know "Was the 'sale' of B.C. Rail honest and above-board?" but the Cabinet under Bill 6 has given itself the legal right to refuse us that information.

Darned if I can see how this fits under Canada's Charter of Rights.

But it's something to think about, when blaming the RCMP for trying to keep its business secret.
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Here's something more concerning that Witness Protection Program. And Canada's Public Safety Minister, the Honourable Stockwell Day, is on the case.
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Opposition seeks answers on Witness Protection Program

A Victoria case raises 'disturbing questions' about secrecy and accountability, NDP and Liberals say


Carly Weeks
CanWest News Service
Saturday, March 24, 2007

OTTAWA -- Opposition parties are calling on the Conservative government to answer "disturbing questions" raised by suggestions of potential abuse of the Witness Protection Program by an RCMP agent in Victoria, as well as concerns over its secrecy and lack of accountability.

"We don't know if there's systemic issues here, or if it's isolated," Liberal public safety critic Sue Barnes said Friday. "I think it raises some disturbing questions about the operations of the Witness Protection Program."

NDP public safety critic Joe Comartin wants the federal government to launch an independent inquiry into the case of an informant-turned-agent who allegedly supplied false information and later committed murder as a protected witness.

Full story: Canada.com
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So Stockwell Day, the person who authorized the bribe to former MP Jim Hart and the subject of a serious criminal investigation is now in charge of the rcmp the same rcmp that has announced an internal investigation into itself over alleged abuses in its paid informant program. Yeah that sounds like a sound plan where the truth will be exposed for all to see. This seems about as legitimate and honest as this debruyckere investigating the bc rail deal and links to senior elected officials.
If you believe the above I have some nice swamp land in florida if somebody is interested in prime beach front property.