Liberal style perfidy

[Humble Opinion]

I missed this -- is it general knowledge by now?

Tom Humble.

Subject: SECRET 1971 RCMP REPORT REVEALS GROUP THAT LAUNCHED PROMINENT
LEFTISTS WAS SUBVERSIVE

LifeSite Daily News - March 19, 2002
SECRET 1971 RCMP REPORT REVEALS GROUP THAT LAUNCHED PROMINENT LEFTISTS WAS
SUBVERSIVE
OTTAWA - The Globe and Mail reports that a "federal government agency that
helped shape the political careers" of prominent politicians" was a front
for crime, subversion and terrorism dedicated to the destruction of Canadian
society. The report comes from a secret 1971 memorandum on the Company of
Young Canadians (CYC) compiled by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
who had infiltrated the group.

The paper reports the CYC's alumni became a who's who of establishment
political activism: environmentalist and businessman Maurice Strong, CUSO
founder Bill McWhinney, former foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy, Bloc
Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe, former Toronto mayor Barbara Hall, First
Nations leaders Phil Fontaine and Georges Erasmus, Montreal lawyer and
businesswoman Manon Vennat, filmmaker and writer Teri McLuhan, Senator
Thelma Chalifoux and many others.

See the report in the Globe at:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/printarticle/gam/20020318
/UCOMPN

[hiti]

First I heard about it. This doesn't surprise me though.

[WestViking]

RCMP infiltrated agency that spawned future star politicians

By MICHAEL VALPY
Globe and Mail
Monday, March 18, 2002 – Print Edition, Page A1

<font size+2>[b]A federal government agency that helped shape the political careers of Lloyd Axworthy, Gilles Duceppe, Georges Erasmus and Barbara Hall was a front for crime, subversion and terrorism dedicated to the destruction of Canadian society, according to the RCMP.

A secret 1971 memorandum says the Company of Young Canadians -- then five years old and being battered by sensational media reports and denunciations from opposition MPs -- was substantially penetrated by the RCMP.

But the Mounties lamented that their reports to the government on what the organization was up to "failed to achieve any appreciable results.

"The CYC . . . continues to be a relatively safe haven for subversive, criminal and otherwise undesirable elements."

The group sent young people across the country to teach Canadians how to be community activists.

Dal Brodhead, CYC executive director from 1970 to 1974, said last week he was surprised to learn how closely the RCMP had been watching the CYC.

He suggested, however, that the RCMP saw subversion everywhere, "it was simplistic," and the stridency of the memo's language likely reflected that the RCMP had been caught napping by Quebec's 1970 October Crisis and the emergence of separatist terrorism and was trying to show that it was vigilant.

The internal RCMP memorandum, which was dated Feb. 11, is attached to a list of CYC projects, staff members and volunteers that "have come to the attention of the [RCMP] security service through the normal flow of intelligence resulting from many and varied investigations into the field of subversion in Canada."

The documents were obtained for The Globe and Mail through the Access to Information Act by researcher Ken Rubin.

The list of projects, staff members and volunteers is blacked out except for a reference to two name-deleted persons in Quebec "charged" under the War Measures Act.

The CYC's alumni became a who's who of establishment political activism: environmentalist and businessman Maurice Strong, CUSO founder Bill McWhinney, former foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy, Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe, former Toronto mayor Barbara Hall, First Nations leaders Phil Fontaine and Georges Erasmus, Montreal lawyer and businesswoman Manon Vennat, filmmaker and writer Teri McLuhan, Senator Thelma Chalifoux and many others.

The CYC was created by the government to capture young people's idealism and demands for social reform sweeping through Canada and the United States with the music of Bob Dylan and the love-culture of the flower children.

The idea was that, after rudimentary "sensitivity training" in community development, CYC volunteers would be sent out across the country to organize disadvantaged people to become agents, rather than victims, of their lives and take political action.

That the organization and its proposed mode of operation was imperfectly thought out became evident during the first volunteer training session at a decaying former resort near Antigonish, N.S., in the summer of 1966. The six-week sensitivity training was found to be too intense, and several recruits had breakdowns.

Over the next five years, CYC volunteers and the organization's eccentric administration in Ottawa moved from one public scrape to another.

Its staff and volunteers in Quebec were identified with separatism, described this way in the RCMP documents:
"The CYC has since its inception provided various subversive elements with 'cover,' 'mobility,' 'finances,' and a degree of 'respectability' while in the pursuit of programs and activities designed to bring about the destruction of the very society which created and allowed them to function."

Mr. Brodhead, now president of New Economy Development Group, an international consulting firm on local economic development, questioned the RCMP's ability to distinguish between "nationalists and extremely dedicated social democrats."

He said a 1969 reorganization of the CYC under the scrutiny of a parliamentary committee resolved most of its weaknesses.

"We always maintained to our minister [then-secretary of state Gérard Pelletier] we had nothing to hide," he said.

The CYC lasted until 1976. [ 03-24-2002, 03:23 AM: Message edited by: WestViking ]

[Barry Stagg]

Valpy's report about the nest of ambitious career statists spawned by the CYC is old news bordering on nostalgia. Call it part of the "Old Hippie Press" or maybe "Rockcliffe Straight".