OPP PLAY THE MOUNTIES GAME

It does seem a bit odd. With the head of the OPP, similar to the head of the RCMP, being a political appointee, you have to kind of wonder why they'd be so reckless. Why tick off possibly your new political masters by inappropriately intervening in an ongoing election campaign. Perhaps the OPP by taking a huge political step days before the June 12/14 provincial election felt that the risk was worth it. Maybe they weren't happy with the Liberals and thought that their last minute request for a judge's order for an additional evidence into the gas plant scandal would increase their odds of having the Tories to deal with in the immediate aftermath of the election. Today's Waterloo Region Record carrys this story "Political interference by the OPP was reckless".

Apparently back in 2006 the RCMP went after Liberal finance minister Ralph Goodale in the middle of an election campaign. They issued a news release indicating that they were investigating him in regards to alleged criminality. he was later exonerated but the damage before an election was done. In that case the RCMP Public Complaints Commissioner went on the offensive. A 32 page report he published indicated that police officers needed to be accountable as to why they would release a news release of that nature during an election campaign. In the current case there has been no demands for the OPP to set the record straight. They have been engaged in questionable conduct with literally zero accountability demanded by anyone. This is not a good scenario and raises the spectre of the politicalization of our senior police forces.