Musical Ride
"This revived previous allegations going back as far as 2004 that the officer severely beat a horse until it was bleeding, punching another horse and ramming another into a wall."
On November 11, 2020 the Honourable Michel Bastarache, C.C. Q.C. Independent Assessor, released his report Broken Dreams Broken Lives.[64][65][66] In it Bastarache wrote "What I learned led me to conclude that a toxic culture prevails in the RCMP. This culture encourages, or at least tolerates, misogynistic, racist and homophobic attitudes among many members of the RCMP."
Mistreatment of horses.
RCMP officers broke into political office and stole documents. Remember Watergate? 400 other break-ins were uncovered by Vancouver Sun.
Planted a bomb, which detonated, at the home of a Montreal business person.
APEC incident revealed federal government interfered in police operation.
Mountie murdered prisoner.
RCMP bombed Alberta oil site.
RCMP fabricated charges against citizen, secretly transported him to Syria where he was tortured.
RCMP misuses members' pension fund.
Constables admitted to inappropriate behavior with female prisoners.
Prisoner shot in the back of the head and RCMP investigates itself.
Robert Dziekanski tasered in Vancouver Airport and members harassed for years by senior management attempting to prove the officers colluded in the death.
82 year old bedridden patient tasered.
RCMP paid citizens to write negative reports regarding Vancouver's safe injection site.
Mountie takes female prisoner home with him.
RCMP refuses to act on domestic abuse complaints. Victim hires a hitman.
Flood victims homes illegally searched and firearms confiscated.
Thousands of complaints from female Mounties resulting in over $100 million in settlements with no discipline against offenders.
Here are the details.
Theft of PQ members list
In 1973, more than thirty members of the RCMP Security Service committed a break-in to steal a computerized members list of Parti Québécois members, in an investigation dubbed Operation Ham.[11] This was later admitted by Solicitor General Francis Fox on October 28, 1977. John Starnes (RCMP), head of the RCMP Security Service, claimed that the purpose of this operation was to investigate allegations that the PQ had funneled $200,000 worth of donations through a Swiss banking account.[12]
Break-ins and bombing
A series of more than 400 illegal break-ins by the RCMP were revealed by Vancouver Sun reporter John Sawatsky in his front-page exposé headline "Trail of break-in leads to RCMP cover-up" on December 7, 1976. The story won the Vancouver Sun the Michener Award that year.[13][1]
It wasn't until the following year that it was uncovered that the October 6, 1972, break-in at the Agence de Presse Libre du Québec office, had been the work of an RCMP investigation dubbed Operation Bricole, not right-wing militants as previously believed.[6] The small leftist Quebec group had reported more than a thousand significant files missing or damaged following the break-in.[14] One RCMP, one SQ and one SPVM officer pleaded guilty on June 16, 1977, but were given unconditional discharges.
A similar break-in occurred at the same time, at the office of the Mouvement pour la Défense des Prisonniers Politiques Québécois.
In 1974, RCMP Security Service Corporal Robert Samson was arrested at a hospital after a failed bombing - the bomb exploded while in his hands, causing him to lose some fingers and tearing his eardrums - at the house of Sam Steinberg, founder of Steinberg Foods in Montreal. While this bombing was not sanctioned by the RCMP, at trial he announced that he had done "much worse" on behalf of the RCMP, and admitted he had been involved in the APLQ break-in.[6][15][1]
On April 19, 1978, the Director of the RCMP criminal operations branch, admitted that the RCMP had entered more than 400 premises without warrant since 1970.
Inquiries
In 1977, the Quebec provincial government launched the Keable Inquiry into Illegal Police Activities, which resulted in 17 members of the RCMP being charged with 44 offences.
In the same year, a Royal Commission was formed by Justice David McDonald entitled Inquiry Into Certain Activities of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to investigate allegations of vast wrongdoing by the national police force. The inquiry's 1981 recommendation was to limit the RCMP's role in intelligence operations, and resulted in the formation of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service three years later.
Excessive use of force at the 1997 APEC Summit
In 1997, the APEC summit was held in Vancouver, British Columbia. Controversy arose after officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police used pepper spray and strip searches against protesters, who were objecting to the presence of several