RCMP Employ Bag of Tricks to Protect DOJ and PMO – To Avoid Justice for Victims of PS752

Opinion article by: Greg Staley

Written on: 2026-08-05

If we are to believe the RCMP, we have to swallow the notion that RCMP officers had no “contemporaneous” records of their decision to drop plans to criminally investigate the shootdown of PS752 by Iran – a massive case with national interest.

The lie the RCMP is selling to Canadians is a doozy – they want Canadians to believe that they dropped their plans to criminally investigate the atrocity, and that no mention is made of any officer taking notes that detail that meeting – how convenient. Also convenient is that the decision to drop the investigation came just 12 days after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with Iran’s Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif and after Mounties had met with the Department of Justice and Public Prosecution Service.

During this time, senior leaders in the RCMP discussed options from a legal perspective on January 27th, 2020, and attended a meeting with the DOJ and Public Prosecution Service – shortly after they dropped plans to investigate and instead chose to support Ukraine. Who was at this meeting? Who gave the order?

What a story we weave when we seek to deceive

RCMP officials met with the Department of Justice and Public Prosecution Service Canada on January 27th, 2020. Shortly after, they dropped their plans to investigate Iran for the shootdown of civilian airliner PS752 criminally and sloughed off the investigation onto the war-torn country of Ukraine. According to the report by the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency (NSIRA), the RCMP “did not create any contemporaneous record which formally documented the decision” to drop plans to criminally investigate PS752 – that is a very unsettling admission.

In the words of former RCMP Investigator Andy Brooke, “although certainly not intended to – it speaks loudly. It cries out that something is amiss. It acts as an urgent prompt to pay attention rather than dismiss an underlying irregularity.”

NSIRA Report 09-407-09

Mr. Brooke described the situation in further detail: “The RCMP has refused to disclose to NSIRA its discussions and consultations with the Department of Justice Canada, shielding documents using solicitor-client privilege.” The NSIRA report (56) reads that the RCMP “produced several documents that were created after the decision was made which explain the rationale.”

As Mr. Brooke pointed out in his article on X, “how were several documents created after” the fact if the RCMP has no records? Also worth pointing out, is why would the RCMP redact the documents they created after the decision was made if they have nothing to hide? Would the unredacted documents show that there was political interference? Talk about employing trickery to protect your hide – and the Liberal governments.

Simply put, how does one create records from nothing? How did the RCMP create “several documents” from nothing? If we are to believe the RCMP, no records exist from those conversations between the RCMP and the Department of Justice that took place on January 27th, 2020 – again, are the notes of Mounties not a record?

Yet, somehow, with no records to reference, the RCMP created several documents afterward? Furthermore, why didn’t NSIRA push for the RCMP to disclose the documents that they redacted when they have the legislative power to do so? Is NSIRA taking a passive posture to enable the RCMP and Department of Justice to sweep this scandal under the rug?

Let’s break it down:

1. The RCMP claims they have no “contemporaneous record” (no records from meeting) which documented their decision to drop their plans to criminally investigate Iran for its shootdown of civilian airliner PS752. RCMP officials had attended a meeting with members from the Department of Justice and the Public Prosecution Service of Canada, and they want us to believe no RCMP officer took notes or kept a record. Are police notes not a record?
2. The RCMP then, according to the NSIRA report, “filed several documents with redactions” and told NSIRA they didn’t believe the review agency could access to the information, despite clear legislation that says they have every right to access the information (section 9 (2) of the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency Act).
3. NSIRA disagreed with the RCMP’s assessment and maintained that it has “full access to any information in their possession or control that is related to the complaint.” Then, for some reason, NSIRA decided not to push the RCMP for unredacted versions of the documents and abandoned their duty to Canadians to hold institutions like the RCMP to account.

National Security and Intelligence Review Act (NSIRA ACT)

What can you do?

There are so many different facets to this scandal – many of which we have already covered in past articles and many that have yet to be covered. What can you do to help bring accountability and justice for the families affected by Iran’s shootdown of PS752? Tell this story! Share it with friends and family and on your socials – do your part to make Canadians aware!

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