LEGALLY, RCMP can lie to Review but not to Inquiry re Wortman, CI or not

the red serge can LIE to REVIEWs, but not to INQUIRIES

The Mountie handbook on handling CIs, (confidential informants) has been fine-tooth-combed by the Justice Department’s smartest lawyers to be legally waterproof.

It says the RCMP can freely lie to almost everybody about CIs, to protect the case and above all to protect the lives of the informant & family.

I can’t really disagree with that.

But : to prevent this being an excuse to evade oversight, the same handbook says they can not lie in a judicial setting : like a courtroom or a Public Inquiry set up under courtroom rules.

But they are free to lie to a mere internal private ‘review’ : the kind pushed by the Ad Hominem Grits : McNeil, Furey, Blair & Trudeau.

This CI issue, more than any other mistake our mountie employees made, is what our employees want to keep from us, their bosses.

Sure, they said to themselves, it was embarrassing that our other mass killing CI, “Dany Boy’ Kane, was publicly outed.

But he murdered mostly other druggie low life : few were shedding many tears over his victims.

But the blameless Portapique dead, killed by a mountie CI ? This could be the perfect shitstorm that just might cost us all our pensions.

No public Inquiry : public Review if you must, but not a fully judicial Inquiry : no way, boss Blair, no way...