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📝🇨🇦 RCMP DEPOT • QUESTIONS THAT SHOULD BE ON THE EXAM
1945: Canada says Nazis and collaborators are being screened.
1948: collaboration isn't an automatic bar.
1950: the Nazi prohibition is dropped.
1951+: Waffen-SS restrictions begin relaxing.
Meanwhile, anti-communism becomes a security priority.
❓ Was the filter broken, or was the definition of "security" changing?
❓ Who made those decisions?
❓ What role did Canadian policing and security institutions play?
❓ What does this history tell you about the difference between serving the public and serving state policy?
SHOW YOUR WORK. ✏️
20 MARKS.
BONUS QUESTION:
Before you swear an oath and put on that badge, what history should you be required to know about the blood that has tarnished it?
📝 Defend your answer.
"A 1999 Federal Court judgment reconstructed the contemporary Cabinet records in unusual detail. Cabinet discussed excluding Nazis and fascists in 1946, but rejected proposals to put that exclusion explicitly into legislation or regulation. Screening was instead handled administratively and secretly through the RCMP. By 1948 the court found inconsistent screening, imprecise criteria, pressure not to impede immigration, and no blanket exclusion of collaborators. Most strikingly, the court found that in July 1948 security officers lacked legal authority to reject someone simply for wartime enemy collaboration."
https://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/202/301/federal_court_reports/html/1999/v03/dueck/fc/1999/pub/v3/1999fc23706.html