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First Nations chiefs call for inquiry into RCMP after CBC report on surveillance
The AFN says 6,000 pages of declassified records show a decades-long dragnet that used informers and electronic surveillance on Indigenous leaders.
- In an April 13 letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak rejected the RCMP's statement of regret, demanding unredacted records and a national inquiry into historical federal surveillance of Indigenous peoples.
- A CBC Indigenous investigation revealed the RCMP Security Service monitored Indigenous political activity starting in 1968, evolving into a widespread dragnet using informers and eavesdropping to infiltrate legitimate organizations until the early 1980s.
- Former AFN national chief Georges Erasmus dismissed the RCMP's apology as useless, calling his own file "garbage," while prominent leaders including George Manuel and Phil Fontaine were targeted through electronic eavesdropping and paid informers.
- Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree intends to meet with the AFN on Thursday to discuss the demands, while Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs leaders press for accountability citing "massive pattern of severe human rights violations."
- Woodhouse Nepinak warned that current government project development risks repeating these surveillance methods, as First Nations leaders assert that mere apologies cannot address the systemic racism embedded in historical federal policing and intelligence practices.
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First Nations chiefs call for inquiry into RCMP after CBC report on surveillance
OTTAWA - First Nations leaders are calling on the RCMP to apologize and are demanding a federal inquiry after a CBC report said the police service spied on Indigenous political
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Assembly of First Nations head rejects RCMP 'regret' for secret Indigenous surveillance program
The head of the Assembly of First Nations is rejecting the RCMP's recent statement of regret for a secret surveillance program that targeted hundreds of Indigenous people. Such statements are "not a sufficient response," Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak says in a letter to the prime minister.
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