The AFN Is Still Waiting for the RCMP's Uncensored Spy File

The Assembly of First Nations is still waiting for uncensored access to the federal government's historic intelligence dossier on the organization, CBC News reports — six months after a CBC News investigation revealed that the RCMP's now-defunct spy agency infiltrated the group in the 1970s. The demand is not for a summary or an acknowledgment, but for the file itself without redactions. Surveillance records of this kind tend to be fought over precisely because they show how a domestic police service understood the people it was watching, and whose understanding shaped what happened next.