Talk:Scandals surrounding the RCMP

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[edit] Note to self

"Agent McCleary" involved with the barn burning? Sherurcij (Speaker for the Dead) 03:01, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

also, Sergeant Gilles Brunet Sherurcij (Speaker for the Dead) 03:49, 23 September 2006 (UTC)


Arar, Air India Sherurcij (Speaker for the Dead) 04:01, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Note to Sherurci

Just a thought, but perhaps the scope of this article could be expanded to include CSIS as well.Bobanny 01:16, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

I want to include the RCMP's role in the recent Toronto terror arrests, and the controversy it has brought up, and a few more recent examples - but did you have any specific CSIS examples in mind? Sherurcij (Speaker for the Dead) 01:32, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
None at the top of my head, but from my impression, minor scandals crop up once in a while. I could be wrong, maybe its more like publicized bungling than bonified scandals. I though it would be good though to emphasise the historical link between the RCMP and CSIS, since CSIS was intended to be the solution to the Mounties secret service branch. I'll try and do some digging when I get a chance. Definately the Arar case should be a priority for now.

[edit] Other items that need adding:

Why was the Ian bush incident crossed out as an incident to be listed? Knave75 (talk) 15:39, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV issues

While most of this article looks pretty good, I believe there are serious neutrality issues with the most recently-added section, 'Racist Murderer gets easy treatment'. (It was added by User:Joybuzzard on December 8th.) The title alone is not neutral, and violates WP:BLP; we shouldn't call people 'murderers' who haven't been convicted of it unless we have very strong grounds to do so, which is not the case here. I'm going to rename it to the less problematic 'Death of Leo LaChance'. The content of the section could also use a rewrite; and it would be good to have more sources to prove that this was, in fact, a major scandal or controversy and so deserves to be included on this page in the first place. Terraxos (talk) 17:11, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

On further inspection, the 'Ian Bush Incident' section also suffers from POV issues (and also needs better sourcing). I'm beginning to think the problem is with this article itself... but these two sections in particular could use cleanup. Terraxos (talk) 17:16, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gustafsen Lake Standoff

The Gustafsen Lake Standoff was heavily involved with the RCMP (The Armed Forces were not involved, unlike the Oka Crisis. I was really young at the time, but I do hear about the media black out by the RCMP and the government. Is there enough reliable sources about this whole thing to move further and add it to this article. I don't have a clue where to begin looking at this accept the mainsteam news papers like The Province, and such. But these are the exact media sources that blacked out the incident, so how do you site that? lol Anyways, just a thought I'd like to throw out there. OldManRivers (talk) 11:13, 28 January 2008 (UTC)