Newly released historical records reveal the security concerns the RCMP had when Pierre Trudeau was getting ready to leave office.
Historian and author Robert Bothwell, who studied Pierre Trudeau’s time in power, said that from his earliest days as prime minister, there were groups who despised him.For Steve Hewitt, a professor at the University of Birmingham who specializes in intelligence and the RCMP, the documents symbolize “the emergence of a Canada into a modern security era.”
“I should further qualify this by stating that the threat situation in Canada, and throughout the world, has slowly escalated during the past 10 to 12 years.” After reviewing the documents, Hewitt suggested that officials might have been thinking about the 1981 attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Regan by John Hinkley, a man whom a jury declared not guilty by reason of insanity in 1982.
The documents also detail the kind of security the former prime minister was comfortable with, and how police planned for his return to private life in Montreal.
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