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shockedcanadian Donating Member (224 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-10 11:32 PM
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RCMP's Tommy Douglas file details promised


http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2010/12/19/sask-douglas-documents-cp.html

The fact that they are promising to review and release "more" material, suggests that they are holding back the most pertinent information. Such as which potential friends, family and colleagues may have been recruited to spy on him. Pathetic. Even the former East Germany's intelligence files have been released in their entirety to even the common man, why such radical secrecy in Canada for a major political figure?
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shockedcanadian Donating Member (224 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-10 04:28 PM
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1. Tommy Douglas: Air secret RCMP files
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/910579--tommy-douglas-air-secret-rcmp-files


They assembled a thick file, of which 1,142 pages survive. Some go back 70 years. Yet Library and Archives Canada has released only 456 heavily-censored pages. Improbably, Ottawa cites national security in holding back the rest......It should be a lot more information. Saskatchewan NDP leader Dwain Lingenfelter says the Douglas family is “adamant” that the entire file be made publi
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