October 18 Ottawa The Commission of […]

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1977-10-18

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October 18 Ottawa The Commission of Inquiry Concerning Certain Activities of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (commonly known as the McDonald Commission after the chairman, Justice David C. McDonald) began hearing testimony both in public and in camera. During its extensive hearings it did not touch on the RCMP's persecution of homosexuals in the Canadian civil service during the 1950s and 1960s. This matter was blown wide open by the publication of John Sawatsky's book Men in the Shadows: The RCMP Security Service in 1980. (See also August 17–18, 1977; November 20, 1977; and Spring 1980.)

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