Ottawa Censors RCMP

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http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/08/20/injecting-truth/3/

But senior officers seemed ready to take that dramatic step. “I can confirm we are good to go from our end,” said Chief Superintendent Bob Harriman, a top RCMP drug enforcement officer in Vancouver, in an email he sent on Oct. 28, 2009, to Dr. Julio Montaner, director of the B.C. centre. Harriman’s email included “proposed messaging for [a] joint media release” of the RCMP and the research centre. The RCMP would acknowledge “an extensive body of Canadian and international peer-reviewed research reporting the benefits of supervised injection sites and no objective peer-reviewed studies demonstrating harms.” As well, Harriman said the RCMP would admit that “reviews” commissioned by the force, which contested the centre’s research, “did not meet conventional academic standards.”

The proposed joint media release was never issued. Nor did the RCMP officers and the centre’s doctors appear together for their planned news conference. According to Montaner, two days before the scheduled event last December—after a venue had been booked at the University of British Columbia and “the banners were ready”—he received a telephone call from Deputy Commissioner Gary Bass, the most senior RCMP officer in British Columbia. “He said, ‘Julio, can’t do it,’ ” Montaner recalls. “I said, ‘What do you mean, Gary?’ He said, ‘I’m really sorry, I’ve been ordered not to go ahead with the news conference.’ ” Montaner says Bass made it clear that the order came from RCMP headquarters in Ottawa.

[Visionseeker]

http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/08/20/injecting-truth/3/

You should add some commentary to your quotes to stay in keeping with fair use.

But there seems to be some hornets nest brewing in the RCMP. First, the open revolt against the Comissioner, the removal of the Gun Registry head, and now a story about how the RCMP hired former Reform MPs company to produce junk science to counter overwhelming evidence supporting insite and attempts by senior RCMP to correct the damage being halted by political forces.

Tony Clement recently gave aid to someone who was drowning. He probably now hopes for someone to do the same for his political career. The worst on this story is yet to come.