CSIS told RCMP about suspected anti-government militia in Quebec: court documents

In early 2023, Canada’s spy agency tipped off the RCMP that several Quebec City area men had formed an allegedly anti-government militia whose members were conducting tactical military training with weapons and ammunition, newly-unsealed search warrants reveal.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service told the RCMP’s counter-terrorism squad about the group, which called itself “Hide_n_Stalk,” first in a verbal briefing and then in several subsequent secret letters, according to the CSIS letters attached to RCMP search warrants.

After getting the CSIS warning and investigative lead, the RCMP’s integrated national security unit then investigated, tracked and surveilled the four men and others alleged to belong to the group for months before finally arresting and charging four Quebec Cit