The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have proven themselves incompetent and untrustworthy before, but never at this scale.
In 2021, the RCMP presided over a massive data breach. More than 2.2 million licenced firearms owners were affected.Names. Addresses. Contact details. Licencing records.
A veritable Christmas wish list for criminals, and everyone responsible for it stayed quiet.
This was not a minor IT mishap. It was a catastrophic failure of basic data stewardship.
The RCMP outsourced core functions of the Canadian Firearms Program to an unidentified third party. That vendor was hit with a ransomware attack. The RCMP insisted that, while there “was no indication that any personal information was viewed or extracted, it is not possible to confirm that it was not accessed.”
Read that again.
“It is not possible to confirm,” yet the RCMP chose to give themselves a full pass instead of holding themselves accountable.
And before you know it, they will have done an investigation (into themselves), and will conclude that they did nothing wrong.
Not just did nothing wrong but handled the situation in an outstanding manner.
Medals for meritorious service will be issued.
Ask the guy if he got a medal for the data breach investigation the next time you get pulled over.
Remember stolen guns were not a significant factor in crimes? About to change.
Especially when the Mounties were the thieves in question.
Billy Liar Blair is the most criminally negligent cop that ever phone-booked a “suspect” in Canada.
In Londonistan, where he represents Canada, if Blair were to be successfully targetted by a vest-clacking cousin -fcker, I would laugh.
As for the RCMP – nobody watches the Watchmen and that ain’t changing.
The anti-Canadian Canadians rule so STFU or else.
During the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia, instead of sending an almost universally available, emergency alert out to the public, the RCMP posted a warning on Twitter. It’s likely that the lack of information available to the public was connected to at least some of the nine people murdered on the second day.
Don’t forget, Some of their finest also shot up a Firehall, and then drove away.
“During the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia,”
Isn’t it amazing how little talk there is about that little cluster f—? You never hear about it in the MSM.
Some white guy shot a bunch of people and we weren’t pummeled with ever detail for weeks? That’s very off-script for those guys.
Sadly, I have had a very “low” opinion of the RCMP since on or about 1988, when various members in Quebec were caught setting fires to barns to implicate the Bloc Quebecois. I am NOT a big fan of the BQ, but I am also NOT for entrapment. Then on or about 1996, there was the Polish immigrant, Robert Jancowski (sp?) who was tased to death at the Vancouver Airport: then the mess in Nova Scotia looking for that murderer who was dressed in police uniforms, even when his ex wife/girlfriend told the RCMP about him: and finally, the long manhunt for those 2 or 3 guys who were murdering American tourists on the highway to Alaska.
I realize that you do not read about the good members of the service, but there are way too many incompetents in the RCMP and the leadership is responsible, in my humble opinion.
Jancowski was murdered by the RCMP in 2006.
Then we also have them burglarising homes in High River. Followed up by vandalising property in Milk River.
Operation Bricole, Operation Kabriole, Operation Ham, Operation Checkmate, Operation Oddball, and Operation Tent Peg are fine actions of the RCMP…
And never forget that they have used the “Mr. Big” entrapment scheme several hundred times.
Do I get to keep my shotgun if the RCMP … misgenders me? Uses an inappropriate pronoun?
No, because owning such a thing is doubleplus ungood and super wrongthink.
You get hockey tickets.
“It is not possible to confirm” …. that if the gun registry was kept at actual RCMP headquarters on the very desk of the Commissioner that the same data breach, under the watchful eyes of the finest police in Canada, would we have ever known about the breach.
But somebody else may know who owns the guns, or may sell that list to others…
Don’t forget the sterling honestly of the RCMP leadership..who swore under oath that they had “destroyed” the gun registry records,as ordered by parliament…
And were never held to account for these lies.
And of course that infamous list of donors to the Truckers.
Small wonder they “report to the PMO” as liars do love to congregate.
The USA has noticed Canada’s systemic corruption.
The President has asked Canada to clean up their act or forgo 5 Eyes information..
And when the current President told our leaders,you are becoming a failed state and will be a threat to USA security..
They responded by throwing an temper tantrum,carefully staged to bring out the Chicken Dancers.
Eastern residents of Can Ahh Duh,hate the USA,their benefactor,more than they love Canada.
The State is the biggest threat to privacy.
No bureaucrat can be trusted to keep their mouth shut,most can be counted on to sell your “private” information anyway they can.
And none will ever face consequences for doing so.
Census Canada is a perfect example of how government handles data.
Beginning with a huge Lie..That promise of “Complete confidentiality” .
Followed by them selling the data they compile..
Public Cost.
Private profit.
FWIW, this sentence: “was no indication that any personal information was viewed or extracted, it is not possible to confirm that it was not accessed” is cybersecurity boilerplate. If data could have been accessed, and you cannot verify that it was not via auditing logs or similar, you must assume that it was and act appropriately, such as by informing the stakeholders, third-parties, insurance, etc. even if there is no affirmative evidence that the data was accessed.
An example might be an employee downloading a sensitive database to a USB thumb drive, which then falls out of his pocket in the building parking lot. It’s found the next day in the parking lot, exactly where you would expect, covered in dirt and grime. No evidence anyone saw it or touched it. You must still assume it was accessed and the data on it compromised.
That the RCMP just left it at “oh well” is kind of the point.
“The RCMP outsourced core functions of the Canadian Firearms Program to an unidentified third party.”
So, who do you figure is going to come up with the ID first….Pee-pee, or CBC.
Okay, okay. Just being stupid…..
I just finished a proof of concept party for an AI controlled bulldozer, (of course nicknamed Killdozer). I sleep better at night knowing that human ingenuity far outstrips the racist white man’s thirst for race based violence, rape culture, and, eating meat. After the latest outrage, I am confident that all firearms will be taken away. The world will be safe at last. Besides, small arms fire cannot disable ‘Killdozer’; it just keeps on performing its pre-programmed tasks until it gets low on fuel, returns to the refueling point, and heads out to build a better world. Next week, the more complex problem of the AI controlled wood chipper …
“Next week, the more complex problem of the AI controlled wood chipper …”
Snowblower on an articulated loader. A little reinforcement and you’re all set…
Nobody naps around Killdozer!
The Liberal government must answer for its deliberate lack of transparency, which put 2.2 million Canadians in harm’s way.
If you’re talking break-ins and burglaries, the number of people at risk is much higher. Even assuming just 3 people per household (low, but some households might have two or more PAL’s). There could be over 6 million Canadians who are less safe in their homes because of government malfeasance.
“The RCMP must be held accountable …
The Liberal government must …
And Parliament must demand …”
Or what, Tony?
So now everyone knows I’m better armed than the Canadian Army. Why don’t I just post it on my front door?
yep.
along wit’ da car keys in Peel was it? no matter cops deys bes all da same. clones dey is.
didja know that? deys aint hoomahn. deys clone androids.
otoh IF a hoomahn cops stops a bullet all the better.
WORST liars and bullies l have EVER encountered
“So now everyone knows I’m better armed than the Canadian Army.”
You bought a .22 -and- a shotgun? Big spender!
Given recent revelations of cops on the towtruck mafia payroll (or maybe actually running the towtruck mafia themselves) it seems clear that anyone with five bucks can find out ANYTHING on the cop database that they want to know.
Some moose limb guy got shot to death in the parking lot of the Burlington Mall this week, Burlington Ontario being the whitest and most upscale (and sleepiest) town in Canada most likely. Absolutely -nothing- ever happens in Burlington. But here we are, random moose limb dudes getting whacked by presumably other moose limb dudes over presumably criminal enterprise. How did they know bro was going to be at the mall? Somebody dropped a dime on him. Cops? Well, they have license plate readers that know where every f-ing car is all day long, and it wouldn’t be the first time let’s just say.
So, long story short, maybe it might be kinda convenient for Somebody if the criminal element got a list of stuff to steal. They could be like contractors, eh? Private enterprise kinda thing.
“RCMP have “sealed” the records on the guns taken away and then returned to the Tumbler Ridge mass killer.”
https://x.com/bcbluecon/status/2022382936004374649
“The experts” …
well, at the very least, the ‘tawt’ that LET the heshe have access to the guns is now ALSO dead.
harsh words? TSK TSK will it mean some other ‘caring mother’ reconsiders ?
“RCMP have “sealed” the records on the guns taken away and then returned to the Tumbler Ridge mass killer.”
Didn’t we hear that an SKS was involved?
ahem. it’s Farce See ‘Em Pee and has been a very long time.
also MAJOR issue, 2021 and only NOW we are alerted?? aka SOME may want to take
extra measures to secure their firearms and OBSERVE the primary PURPOSE?????
achtchung!!! himmel zein!!! shoot zem!!! shoot zem hahll ZEIG HIEL ZEIG HIEL!!!
… ” 2.2 million licenced firearms owners”
In 2021 that’d be ALL holders of a PAL, each and every one.
This was a 2021 Chi-Com directive,
who in 2026 have publicly revealed their “security” agreement
with the Liberal Party of Canada’s Arse EMP.
Same reason Ares EMP returned guns to Tumbler Ridge.