RCMP illegally spying on police officers

CBC is reporting that the RCMP illegally used Spyware like the Israeli spyware the Ontario police were using to spy on Retired Vancouver police officer Paul McNamara Ontario RCMP officer Pete Merrifield while investigating the Bill Majcher case.

"McNamara and Merrifield filed a lawsuit together last year against the federal government, seeking $5.5 million in damages and alleging defamation, claiming they lost their security clearances — and in McNamara's case, his job — because of inaccurate, incomplete, misleading and/or false information provided by CSIS to their employers."

"They say CSIS wrongly implicated them in assisting William Majcher, a former RCMP inspector who was charged in 2023 with helping China conduct foreign interference in a case that is still ongoing.Though both McNamara and Merrifield say they had known Majcher for years, they both deny having any unlawful associations with him."

"An internal RCMP document from May 2023, also published in the Majcher court case, states the ODITs on McNamara and Merrifield were required "for the purpose of collecting historical messages as well as documentary evidence in support of the offences being investigated" in relation to Majcher."

Yet CBC and all the mainstream media outlets have failed to report that the charges against Bill Majcher have been stayed. 

(Pete Merrifield ) "has a history of disputes with RCMP brass and is the co-founder and vice-president of its union, the National Police Federation. He also learned from the April 2023 affidavit that the RCMP had ordered an ODIT on his union phone during the time he was engaged in collective bargaining conversations that year. He says this breached not only his privacy, but the privacy of some 19,000 union members."

Saanich Mayor Richard Atwell was also spied on by the Saanich Police department using spyware on his computer. CSIS has been doing this for years. Canada Files has an interesting article on the Bill Majcher case.