The Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Mike Duheme, is Daniel Thibeault's guest on the show “Les glaces du verre”.
S 'there is another problem that has concerned Mike Duheme for several years, and that is the interference of foreign entities.
This question is also the subject of a public inquiry. Judge Marie-Josée Hogue, who was chosen to chair this investigation, has the mandate to verify the integrity of the last two federal elections (2019 and 2021). It must produce an interim report by the end of May.
The threat changes. What we see today is not what we saw. […] The dynamics, the evolution of the national security [landscape] have changed [radically].
A quote from Mike Duheme, Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
According to the commissioner, his organization had to adjust to face several types of threats to national security and interference from within the country, from abroad and online. The multiplicity of sources of these threats complicates investigations and confuses the issue, but does not stop the work of the RCMP.
According to the commissioner, the ongoing investigation into the murder last June of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, president of a Sikh temple in Surrey, a suburb of Vancouver, is progressing favorably.
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Protesters gathered in Vancouver last June after the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar. He was shot and killed in the parking lot of the Sikh temple he led in Surrey, Metro Vancouver. (File photo)
This event caused shock waves throughout the House of Commons. Justin Trudeau had suspected the Indian government of having sponsored this murder.
Each crime scene has its particularity, and there are some that are more complex than others, underlines Mike Duheme.
While a defamation suit has been launched against the RCMP, the investigation into Chinese “police stations” is also progressing, according to Commissioner Duheme.
Another growing phenomenon that worries Commissioner Duheme is online violence and harassment against parliamentarians.
I have never seen so many threats or insults towards elected officials on the Internet, he notes. He sees a change in society where the public, comfortable behind a computer, writes or makes threats on social networks.
Daily online threats can push some elected officials to leave political life, particularly in the municipal sphere, where proximity to the public is greatest.
To those who believe that everything is allowed behind their screen, Commissioner Duheme issues a warning: We don't talk about it often, [but] we have a lot success in tracking down these people and laying charges.
This episode ofBackstage of Powerwill be broadcast Sunday at 11h on HERE< em>RDI and on ICITélé.