OTTAWA—An activist concerned about mining-industry abuses found it “kind of creepy and unsettling” to recently learn the RCMP compiled a six-page profile of her shortly after she turned up at a federal leaders debate during the 2015 election campaign. “I found it kind of creepy and unsettling because of the way that they were compiling information about my life,” Small said in an interview. And why is the RCMP spending so much time and resources to compile information on community organizers and activists in Toronto? The RCMP did not answer questions from The Canadian Press about why and how it assembled the profile. The solidarity network is a grassroots group concerned about the harms that mining companies, many of them Canadian, can do to communities, the environment and human rights.

Source: thestar November 30, 2019 10:52 UTC