CSIS told RCMP about suspected anti-government militia in Quebec: court documents
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A Quebec judge unsealed search warrants in the case on Thursday after a joint application by major Canadian news outlets, including Global News, Quebecor Media, CBC and La Presse.
In early 2023, Canada’s spy agency tipped off the RCMP that several Quebec City area men had formed an allegedly anti-government militia whose members were conducting tactical military training with weapons and ammunition, newly-unsealed search warrants reveal.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service told the RCMP’s counter-terrorism squad about the group, which called itself “Hide_n_Stalk,” first in a verbal briefing and then in several subsequent secret letters, according to the CSIS letters attached to RCMP search warrants.
After getting the CSIS warning and investigative lead, the RCMP’s integrated national security unit then investigated, tracked and surveilled the four men and others alleged to belong to the group for months before finally arresting and charging four Quebec City suspects in July.
The RCMP search warrants and CSIS letters were unsealed Thursday by Quebec Court Justice Réna Émond.
The judge ordered them made public after a joint legal application by Global News, Quebecor Media, The Globe and Mail, and other news organizations, but ordered some redactions on national security grounds.
The RCMP documents had been sealed since January 2024. That’s when police used them to conduct court-authorized RCMP raids during which police allegedly seized long guns, pistols and ammunition from the suspects.
The same four men were arrested and charged in mid-July, some 17 months later. A Crown prosecutor declined to explain the lengthy delay.
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