Senior federal officials discussed raising the country's alert level to the highest tier at the height of the Idle No More movement, which also shaped how Canada's security agencies handle Indigenous-led protests, according to a new book. CBC News obtained an advance copy of the book, Policing Indigenous Movements, which charts how police, military and intelligence agencies handled such protest movements through "fusion policing models." Andrew Crosby, coordinator with the Ontario Public Interest Research Group and co-author of Policing Indigenous Movements. "We see the security state commenting on Idle No More and the effectiveness and this new way of organizing. Public Safety said in a statement that the emergency response level was never moved to the second or third level during Idle No More.

Source: CBC News March 01, 2018 13:30 UTC