The intelligence chief for the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) told his superior he had concerns about information requests on social movements his unit was receiving from political leaders and other actors during the time of the Freedom Convoy last winter.
The OPP Provincial Operations Intelligence Bureau (POIB) “is increasingly receiving requests for information, intelligence, open source scrapes, background checks etc on a wide array of societal actors,” POIB head Superintendent Pat Morris wrote in an email to OPP Deputy Commissioner Chuck Cox on Feb. 2.
“Many of these entities are social movements that have perspectives that diverge from the mainstream – they may not be engaged in criminal activity, nor do we have grounds to believe or suspect that they are.”…