More than four years after Cameron Jay Ortis was charged with breaching Canada's secrets law, the former RCMP intelligence director is about to get his day in court.
Ortis was taken into custody in Ottawa on Sept. 12, 2019, an arrest that deeply shocked the national police force. As the head of the RCMP's National Intelligence Co-ordination Centre, Ortis had access to some of the country's most closely held information. Ortis, 51, is charged with violating the Security of Information Act by allegedly revealing secrets to three individuals and trying to do so in a fourth instance, as well as breach of trust and a computer-related offence.
A multi-week trial is slated to get underway in Ontario Superior Court on Tuesday with the selection of a jury."He intends to take the stand in his own defence. He is eager to have his side of the story told," Doody said.Ortis is out on bail under strict conditions, but spent many months locked away in an Ottawa jail.
Days after the dramatic 2019 arrest of Ortis, then-RCMP commissioner Brenda Lucki told a news conference that investigators came across documents during a probe with the FBI that led the Mounties to believe there could be some kind of "internal corruption." The charges against Ortis claim he communicated "special operational information" without authority while designated as a person "permanently bound to secrecy" — a category that includes numerous officials in the Canadian security and intelligence community.
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