CBC Indigenous obtained nearly 6,000 pages of RCMP Security Service documents through access to information requests. "The Security Service was unprepared," says a 1978 secret internal history, describing the agency as "unable to respond to government requests for intelligence." "This is a massive violation of Indigenous political rights, human rights and privacy," said Shiri Pasternak, a criminology professor at Toronto Metropolitan University. WATCH | Cold War-era RCMP spies monitored Indigenous organizations: The secret RCMP program to spy on Indigenous organizations | Duration 17:30 Newly declassified documents obtained by CBC Indigenous confirm that the RCMP infiltrated and sought to disrupt legitimate political Indigenous organizations in the 1970s, in an extensive program of covert surveillance, informants and countersubversion. Former Assembly of First Nations national chief Georges Erasmus with part of the dossier the RCMP Security Service kept on him in the 1970s.

Source: CBC News March 24, 2026 14:16 UTC