Tommy Douglas spied on, sought RCMP probe

Newly disclosed pages show RCMP were suspicious of Douglas's activities, including his correspondence with the Communist Party of Canada in Saskatoon.

CBC:

Newly declassified records from the early 1960s show that even as Tommy Douglas called for a probe of RCMP spying, the Mounties were actively investigating the national NDP leader's political sympathies.

Douglas pointed in April 1963 to the case of a Regina woman who was regularly interrogated by the RCMP, noting the top Mountie had dismissed her story as fiction. He pushed for a special Commons committee to look into the matter.

"The tendency to label innocent people as Communists or bad security risks without any opportunity for them to be heard has gone far enough," he declared.

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