Editing Royal Canadian Mounted Police (section)

==== RCMP Security Service (1950–1984) ====
{{Main|RCMP Security Service}}
{{Further|Canadian Security Intelligence Service|PROFUNC}}

The [[RCMP Security Service]] (RCMPSS) was a specialized political intelligence and counterintelligence branch with [[national security]] responsibilities following revelations of illegal [[covert operation]]s relating to the [[Quebec sovereignty movement|Quebec separatist movement]].<ref name=ceroyco>{{cite news |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080425205414/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0004009 |title=Inquiry Into Certain Activities of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Royal Commission of |publisher=Canadian Encyclopedia |archive-date=25 April 2008 |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/royal-commission-on-inquiry-into-certain-activities-of-the-royal-canadian-mounted-police}}</ref> As a result, the RCMPSS was replaced by the [[Canadian Security Intelligence Service]] (CSIS) in 1984, and is statutorily independent of the RCMP.

In the late 1970s, revelations surfaced that the RCMP Security Service had in the course of their intelligence duties engaged in crimes such as burning a barn and stealing documents from the separatist [[Parti Québécois]]. This led to the [[Royal Commission of Inquiry into Certain Activities of the RCMP]], better known as the "McDonald Commission", named for the presiding judge, Justice David Cargill McDonald. The commission recommended that the service's intelligence duties be removed in favour of the creation of a separate intelligence agency, the CSIS. The RCMP and the CSIS nonetheless continue to share responsibility for some law enforcement activities in the contemporary era, particularly in the anti-terrorism context.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Shore|first1=Jacques|last2=Crane|first2=Brian|last3=Wilson|first3=John D.|date=2017|title=Interjurisdictional Information Sharing and National Security: A Constitutional and Legislative Analysis|url=https://commentary.canlii.org/w/canlii/2017CanLIIDocs355|journal=McGill Law Journal|volume=62|issue=1 |pages=207–239|doi=10.7202/1038712ar|via=CanLII|doi-access=free}}</ref>