The RCMP’s War on Dissent | A Few Bad Apples
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There’s this idea out there that often gets bandied about; that the RCMP, from its very inception, has been a tool of political repression.
People claim that for most of the force’s 150-year history, the Mounties have been used to clamp down on perceived opponents of the state, whether they’re Indigenous activists, Francophone separatists or leftists of all stripes.
And that theory, well, it’s basically true.
During World War One and into the 1920s, one of the force’s primary missions was to infiltrate and surveil…
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