RCMP hired private spies to monitor Fairy Creek activists
RCMP hired private spies to monitor Fairy Creek activists
www.nationalobserver.com RCMP hired private spies to monitor Fairy Creek activists
An invoice obtained through a federal Access to Information request allows Canada’s National Observer to reveal a report commissioned by the RCMP, spying on activists' online activities
“The underlying problem here is that the RCMP is presuming that a person who is engaged in environmental activism, necessarily, is a higher risk for engaging in criminal behaviour — that somehow, that you're voicing dissent, that you pose a risk of criminality,” Jack said, “and that that gives the police the authority to be investigating you, following you, collecting information about you.”