Walter Rudnicki, 1925-2010
Posted March 14, 2010
By móniyáw
OTTAWA — For a time in the 1970s, Walter Rudnicki was a household name in Ottawa.
It wasn’t because of his accomplishments in improving the lives of Canada’s aboriginal people — although he is still a legendary figure among native leaders.
Instead, Rudnicki got famous for his firing from the public service, his successful suit for wrongful dismissal and, only later, the revelation that he had been on an RCMP blacklist of 21 civil servants suspected of being members of a New Left seeking to “organize and radicalize the ‘underclasses’ of society and mould them into a revolutionary force.”
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In the months after the trial, news about the existence of the black list started to trickle out. (more…)
