Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 24, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 ramp sins to be revealed news Agency breaking began pressures for probe Offe Rees activities the Federal government will release the main report of the Mcdonald Royal commission into ramp lawbreaking who covered Many of the hundreds of Mcdonald hearings Over three tells How it All by Gerard Mcneil the Canadian press Ottawa late one night in 1972 police from three forces ramp Security the Mon Treal Urban Community police and the Quebec police Force into the empty offices of a left Wing news Agency and made off with its subscription lists and other the next Magence Presse Libre do Quebec told reporters it suspected police were the Agency fired off telegrams to then solicitor general Jeanpierre then Quebec Justice minister Jerome Choquette and Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau seeking an in the Agency complaint was passed by goers office to ramp the Force advised Goyer to ignore despite the fact that John director general of the Security had been Given details of the raid and was angry that ramp officers had participated without his Goyer was told none of involvement denied in Quebec Choquette said publicly none of the three police forces had been he said later he had been told this by Maurice director of the Quebec Pierre denied Ever talking to Choquette about the in police were invest but the officer assigned to the Case said later he could not get any answers from the Antiterrorist group involved in the the breaking incident might still be unsolved except for ramp con stable Robert who had been a member of the Antiterrorist squad in in Samson was in charged with placing a bomb near the Home of Stein bergs supermarket executive Mitzi when he blurted that he had done worse things As a work ing he then mentioned the news Agency the first admission that police had been he had been one of the three officers one from each Force pleaded guilty in the Spring of 1977 to authorizing a raid without a judicial the pleas came after a closed hearing before Mon Treal judge Roger Vincent who gave the police an absolute saying their motives had been in opposition maps were asking Why the charges haunt been entering and eyebrows Rose As then solicitor Gen eral Francis Fox conveyed the ramp explanation that breaking and entering by police was not an offence when there was no in tent to Eom flit a in Fox was forced to make a commons statement Assur ing maps that the Montreal raid had been a unique and exceptional Case of ramp As he former ramp cers Donald Mccleery and Gilles Brunei both fired in 1973 for unspecified reasons and seeking re advising officials that the Agency raid had been anything but they gave details of other dirty tricks operations in including the burning of a the theft of dynamite and the abduction of potential they said they would make these allegations Public if Ottawa didst a feeble attempt was made to get them to keep but it was apparent they would with que becs new parti quebecois govern ment about to launch a Public inquiry under lawyer Jean Fox appointed the Royal commis Sion under Justice David Mcdonald of Alberta on july the commissions who predicted a had their suspicions strengthened when Fox launched efforts to stifle the Keable which by Midsummer was hearing explosive the went to court to Block Keables Access to ramp saying Only Ottawa could investigate the Trudeau testified in secret when the Csc reported in the autumn of 1977 that the ramp was opening firs class mail in violation of the Post office postmaster general Jeanjacques Blais denied the report in the commons Only to have Fox confirm it a moment later from another Murray then Security service operational was among the first witnesses to be questioned when Mcdonald began hearings late in Why haunt Sexsmith advised Fox he was mistaken in saying the news Agency raid was unique Sexsmith replied that Fox had been technically there had never been a raid quite like that therefore it was ramp commission Fox assurances unjustified or from 1969 to testified the ramp had been Correct in advising Warren former so that it want an ramp practice to open All Mand had passed this information along to Ontario conservative my Allan Lawrence after he relayed a constituents complaint about opened from the lower officer after officer testified that they had assumed what they were doing was Legal because they had been told to do it by when not engaged in Public or private scoured files at ramp producing evidence that Many officers been worried about what they were when a training class asked a senior officer in 1970 about what Protection they could expect if he went to Higgitt suggest ing a policy Higgitt saying Mem Bers know or ought to know that whatever misadventure happens to the Force will stand by them As Long As there is some justification for doing far More vigorous but he told Mcdonald that offi cers Seldom asked anyone to break the Mcdonald asked John director general of these purity service from 1969 to about a 1972 memo urging com Manders to become far More Vig Orous in their approach to disruptive officers who walked at orders to disrupt violence prone groups would be subject to Cen sure if trans thus a mountie who walked would face a stalled a Black Mark on his if he really Felt strongly about what was he could resign from the if he said anything he might find it hard to get another police Job anywhere in the Mcdonald com Mission was being told that the ramp had engaged in hundreds of fishing expeditions into Homes and even Seamer was the picture that not terror from Montreal few of their experiences with the Security ser a Montreal Man who refused to act As an informant was fixed after an officer visited his another was so frightened by an ramp visit that he fled afraid to take a go to a mail a letter or claim unemployment insurance for fear Security agents would track him fears justified As other testimony made such fears were the Force did use unemployment and social insurance files to track Down or harass the files were supposed to be conf but in fact police had Broad Access to to a Royal commission was investigating police intrusions into medical ramp had used such files to Dis credit a candidate for the Leader ship of the league for socialist a when the candidate tried to launch a criminal on Tario attorney general Roy Mcmurtry blocked saying it be fair to prosecute before the Mcdonald report was made senior ramp personnel testified that politicians must have known the Law was being broken by their officers to enforce the this was the inherent contradiction that had been raised before a Cabi net committee of which prime min ister Trudeau was a member in it had already been alluded to publicly in the 1969 report of an earlier Royal commission on Securi which said lawbreaking in Secu Rity work was a Parade of former solicitors Gen eral testified they had never been told about ramp tru Deaus secret testimony has yet to become and in the com Cabinet ministers refused to answer questions about the ramp until the commission had although evidence of ramp dirty tricks operations was sent to actor Ney general in Alberta and British they decided either not to prosecute or to wait for the Mcdonald but in the Keable report resulted this summer in charges against 18 ramp officers in connection with five of the illegal operations also investigated by Mcdon the commission May duplicate the Keable recommendations and recommend disciplinary or other action against senior but convictions May be most ramp officers testified under the Protection of the Canada Evi Dence which Means their Evi Dence cant be used against them in nor can they be forced to and there rarely were wit Nesses to the alleged the Public is paying Legal and if anyone is convicted for illegal acts committed in the line of they have Hig Gitts Assurance that salaries will be paid while they Are in on Texas new Orleans Winnipeg departure you will 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