Pourtant, le 1 novembre 1978, dans un témoignage qu’il avait rendu devant la Commission McDonald, l’ex-commissaire de la GRC avait déclaré qu’effectivement la GRC interceptait certaines lettres, dans de très rares circonstances, et qu’on ne cachait pas cette pratique aux ministres.
However, on November 1, 1978, in testimony before the McDonald Commission, the former commissioner of the RCMP stated that they did indeed intercept mail on a very restricted basis and that the practice was not one which had been concealed from Ministers.