As I mentioned, it was born out of crises. I was there during a whole series of crises. It's impossible for an intelligence service to define or defend its position in the public, because they'd say, “I can't tell you what it is. It's classified information”. It requires, on the goodwill of the people, that there are vigorous regimes there that would have detected it...and to have someone else speak on their behalf, to assure the minister—or [Inaudible--Editor] through the public. When you don't have that you end up with public inquiries.
Almost all the RCMP who went through the bad days, when members were charged with criminal offences for their activities during the Quebec crisis, are gone. There are mostly civilians there now who have never had that experience. You're going to find them making new mistakes.