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Richard Proulx is a former
Royal Canadian Mounted Police The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP; french: Gendarmerie royale du Canada; french: GRC, label=none), commonly known in English as the Mounties (and colloquially in French as ) is the federal police, federal and national police service of ...
(RCMP) Assistant Commissioner. He was the head of national security investigations at RCMP headquarters in 2003 during the " Maher Arar Affair".


Role in the Maher Arar case

He is the official singled outPither, Kerry. "Dark Days: The Story of Four Canadians Tortured in the Name of Fighting Terror", 2008 in the
Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar The Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar was a public inquiry investigating the rendition and torture of Maher Arar released on September 18, 2006. The findings of this Commission are part of Repo ...
, also known as the Arar Report for failing to provide these clear directions on information sharing policies On September 25, 2003, appearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Proulx, then the RCMP Assistant Commissioner refused to discuss case with MPs. The Committee wanted to know what was the role of the RCMP in the case of Maher Arar. The RCMP had provided information that led the United States to send Maher Arar to Syria, where he was tortured. Assistant Commissioner Richard Proulx, the head of national security investigations at RCMP headquarters, had urged an official communication from the Americans that the RCMP had not that Maher Arar be sent to Syria. On July 27, 2005, the Canadian Press reported that Proulx, the assistant commissioner of the RCMP, instructed staff to withhold important information from Canada's foreign affairs minister Bill Graham about their investigation into Maher Arar who was tortured in a Syrian jail.


Events

On October, 2001, Inspector
Garry Clement Garry may refer to: Names *Gary (given name) or Garry *Garry (surname) Places *Cape Garry, South Shetlands *Fort Garry, Winnipeg, a district in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada *Garry Lake, Nunavut, Canada *Rural Municipality of Garry No. 245, Sas ...
, officer of the RCMP "A" Division in
Ottawa Ottawa (, ; Canadian French: ) is the capital city of Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River in the southern portion of the province of Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core ...
, told RCMP Inspector Mike CabanaRCMP reputation on line after Ottawa man awarded new trial for 2000 contract killing , National Post
/ref> that Toronto's
Project O Canada Founded in 2001, Project O Canada was a Toronto-based O'Connor, DennisReport of the Events Relating to Maher Arar: Factual Background, 2006 anti-terrorism investigation by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Created in response to the September 11, ...
needed a team in Ottawa to help with its investigations of an Ottawa man named
Abdullah Almalki Abdullah Almalki (born 1971) is a Canadian engineer who was imprisoned and tortured for two years in a Syrian jail after Canadian officials falsely indicated to the Syrian authorities and other countries that he was a terrorist threat. Almalki h ...
. In response,
Project A-O Canada Founded in 2001, Project O Canada was a Toronto-based O'Connor, DennisReport of the Events Relating to Maher Arar: Factual Background, 2006 anti-terrorism investigation by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Created in response to the September 11, 2 ...
was created. Garry Clement told Michel Cabana that the team would be working closely with the U.S.
Federal Bureau of Investigation The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency. Operating under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Justice, ...
and
Central Intelligence Agency The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ), known informally as the Agency and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, officially tasked with gathering, processing, ...
. Later on, the
Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar The Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar was a public inquiry investigating the rendition and torture of Maher Arar released on September 18, 2006. The findings of this Commission are part of Repo ...
revealed that there were no clear directions to RCMP officers regarding how to share information with the FBI and the CIA.


External links


Kerry Pither Author of the book "Dark Days:The Story of Four Canadians Tortured in the Name of Fighting Terrorism"


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See also

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Giuliano Zaccardelli Giuliano Zaccardelli (born ) is an Italian-born Canadian retired police officer who served as the 20th commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) from 2000 to 2006. His departure from the RCMP was linked to the force's involvemen ...


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