🇨🇦 Lead RCMP investigator torched a case for an affair

A senior Mountie ran an intimate relationship with a confidential informant, used that compromised source to launch a multi-agency investigation, then let a colleague swear warrant affidavits containing misleading information. That is not a minor ethics lapse. That is a police force rotting behind the federal brand management machine. The conduct board said the officer should be fired, as reported, because the affair risked the integrity of the investigation and dragged the justice system toward disrepute.

And notice the pattern Ottawa always sells: trust the institutions, trust the experts, trust the process. Meanwhile the public gets redactions, publication bans, anonymous ranks like Corporal X and the usual ritual of concern after the damage is done. Trudeau-era Canada perfected this model: maximum secrecy for the state, maximum lectures for citizens. The same establishment that demands censorship, surveillance powers and endless deference cannot keep its own national police from contaminating cases with bedroom politics and then laundering the fallout through bureaucracy.

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