Lawyer finds covert RCMP monitoring of Church group ‘shocking’

Paul Champ, a lawyer representing the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, says it’s “shocking” to learn that the RCMP used plain clothes officers to monitor an anti-pipeline workshop held at the United Church in 2013. The RCMP civilian watchdog said the activities of police were “reasonable.”

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