Answers please, RCMP

Answer the questions. We're entitled to a response from the RCMP about this alleged provocation by undercover police officers at the Montebello summit that is circling around the world now, at the top of the YouTube "News & Politics" viewing page. If these were indeed the actions of a police force in Canada, RCMP or Quebec, it is reprehensible.



Refusing to comment does not look good at all for the new RCMP commissioner:

"The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers union believes that the security force at Montebello were ordered to infiltrate our peaceful assembly and to provoke incidents," Coles told reporters. "I think the evidence that we’ve shown you today reinforces the view.”

Coles showed photographs of the masked men's and police officers' boots taken during the handcuffing, in which the they appear to have identical tread patterns on their soles.

He also questioned why other activists have been unable to identify the three men whose images have been broadcast worldwide and demanded to know who the masked men were.

"Do they have any connection to the Quebec police force or the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or are they part of some other security force that was at Montebello?" he asked, adding that he wants to know how the Prime Minister's Office was involved in security during the protests.

The RCMP has refused to comment, while Quebec provincial police have flatly denied that its officers were involved in the incident.

It said it is not releasing any names as no charges were laid.

Still awaiting a response.