All the serge federales say, “we could have had Gabriel anyday” (they only let him slip away, out of kindness, I suppose)

with a sad tip of the hat to the late & great TOWNES VAN ZANDT....

So Gabriel Wortman wasn’t a CI, all the federales say (to the Toronto Star), just a bad bad man with 23 years of unchecked violence.

Our serge saviours say everything was under perfect control : that they had their eye on him and could have picked him up any day.

But they didn’t, and then he slipped away into the night and made his great Gotterdammerung getaway.

In a mountie car and a mountie vest : worn out of kindness, I suppose....