Indigenous activists, leaders in Manitoba were monitored as part of historic RCMP ‘Native extremism program’ – CBC
Mar 25, 2026
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Two future national First Nations leaders, a deputy premier and a city councillor are among the prominent Manitobans who appear in declassified intelligence files from years of RCMP spying on the Indigenous rights movement in the Cold War era.
Former Assembly of First Nations national chiefs Phil Fontaine and Ovide Mercredi, who are from First Nations within Manitoba, appear in the RCMP Security Service intelligence files. So does Eric Robinson, who went on to become a Manitoba cabinet minister and deputy premier.
