RCMP Spied On Levesque For Decades

The 2,520-page dossier, spanning 16 volumes, was obtained Tuesday by The Canadian Press from Library and Archives Canada under the Access to Information Act. Numerous passages and hundreds of full pages in the file, though decades old, were withheld from release. Personal files compiled by the RCMP's security and intelligence branch can be disclosed through the access law 20 years after a person's death. Levesque, an inveterate chain-smoker, died of a heart attack at 65 in November 1987. Massive RCMP files on other politicians, including NDP luminaries David Lewis and Tommy Douglas, have also been declassified in recent years. By 1972, the Mounties determined that Levesque was "not considered a subversive revolutionary. He is a strong Quebec nationalist who advocates separation of that province through peaceful and democratic means." However, the RCMP continued to amass hundreds of pages of secret reports on the fiery politician and chief foil of Pierre Trudeau, who as Liberal prime minister led the federalist struggle to keep Canada united during the 1970s. ... http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=n1106145A

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