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OTTAWA — It has long been known that the RCMP Security Service took a keen interest in Roosevelt"Rosie" Douglas, a Black rights activist who attended school in Canada and would go on to be prime minister of Dominica.
Though he was a master's student at McGill University by early 1969, Douglas emerged as one of the leaders of a protest at Sir George Williams against alleged racism. As police moved to evict the student demonstrators from the university's computer centre, a fire broke out and chaos ensued. A special operations group at the Security Service developed a national program of disruptive countermeasures in the early 1970s to prevent or contain what the force saw as the potential for political violence by agitators of various stripes.
"A chemical, harmless to the engine, was introduced to the gas tank of Douglas' car for this purpose. The operation was unsuccessful due to the chemical's malfunction." The Mounties were also worried about"Canadian extremists" making links with foreign groups such as the Irish Republican Army, Palestinian organizations, and the Black Panther Party and Weathermen in the U.S.,"all with a bloodied record of politically motivated violence and assassination."
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