RCMP Obtains Special Warrant In Secret Terrorism Case
The RCMP’s national security section exercised a rarely used Criminal Code provision last week to obtain a “special” search warrant in a secret terrorism case.
The search warrant, which has been sealed, was filed by the Mounties on Aug. 15 at the Federal Court of Canada.
The application to obtain a search warrant included a sworn affidavit by Const. Eric Boissonneault of the RCMP’s Integrated National Security Enforcement Team.
The constable wouldn’t comment on the terror case, but his sealed affidavit was filed to support a warrant on behalf of the Attorney General of Canada under the Seizure and Restraint of Property section of Canadian terrorism laws.
The application was examined by a federal judge in private and the section considered was 83.13 1(a).
The “special” search warrant authorizes the Mounties to seize property from an unknown target and forfeit to the federal government.
It is not known what the Mounties wanted to seize or if they actually found anything because the entire court application was sealed in private by a Federal Court judge.
In May, a senior Mountie told an Ottawa conference that the Mounties are investigating seven terrorist plots so disturbing they “keep me awake at night.”
Senior RCMP Mountie “What we’re not onto really scares us.”
You may recall the post from May of this year.
Assistant Commissioner Mike McDonell stated that there were cases “spread right across the country” and each is comparable in scale to Canada’s biggest alleged jihadist conspiracy, which resulted in the arrests of 18 Toronto-area people in a suspected plot to bomb federal buildings in 2006.
He went on to say, “What we’re onto scares us,” he said in a later interview, without elaborating. “What we’re not onto really scares us.”
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