Documents show there were no threats against Trudeau as he left office in 1984, but potential risks lead the RCMP to recommend heightened security for the former prime minister
With threats against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spiking in recent years, newly released historical records reveal the security concerns the RCMP had when his father was getting ready to leave office.
“It is fair to say that Prime Minister Trudeau’s years in office were often marked by controversy,” reads a threat assessment labelled “secret,” dated April 25, 1984. Others ranged from the separatist movement in Quebec to Trudeau’s 1970 use of the War Measures Act – which would later be replaced by the Emergencies Act, first invoked by Trudeau’s son last year to clear the “Freedom Convoy” blockades.
Indeed, one year before Trudeau even announced his plans to step down, the former director of protective policing penned a letter forwarded to the then-RCMP commissioner that said the government would likely request such security. “There are those who will praise him for everything that has taken place, and unfortunately, those who will blame him for almost everything that has not developed to their liking,” Simmonds said in the recommendation.
Since 1979, the assessment says, at least 20 threats had been made to Trudeau’s life. That included one that threatened his children. And they detail how he requested that officers keep their distance while during a trip with his sons to Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula in August 1984.
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