If he worked for the rcmp he would have signed an agreement that he has to return all rcmp property when his job ends so i think he just ratted himself out.

It never occurred to the RCMP to retrieve the files when they were slandering and blacklisting him?? I think the point is that they lost track of them for years.

I received the following letter to the editor from Supt. Ray Bernoties. Because it's an online-only article, I am placing it below this article by Carlito Pablo.
Charlie Smith

Letter to the editor,
Regarding your article on a psychologist who was contracted by the RCMP some time ago and failed to return medical files, I would like to kindly suggest that when you report negatively on an organization, you consider actually speaking to someone from that organization. I had naively believed that was a part of normal journalistic practice but since reading your article I see that is not the case.

Had you spoken to us, we would have told you that the safe and the medical files contained within are in an alarmed location with a medical practitioner who is bound by his profession's standards as well as, potentially, the Security of Information Act, the Access to Information Act, the Privacy Act and/or other Acts of Parliament.

We would have also informed you that the security provisions apply both during and after one's service with the RCMP and that there is an onus on all employees and those contracted to work for us to immediately return classified or protected information. Everyone who is security cleared to work for us signs that they both understand and agree to comply with the legal and administrative requirements.

Before publishing an article, maybe conduct some research as it may assist in providing your readers the necessary facts to enable them to make up their own minds - instead of being unknowingly led down a path already decided upon by the reporter.

Thanks,
Supt Ray Bernoties
Officer in Charge
BC RCMP Communications

For an organization to systematically try to discredit Dr. Webster for speaking out at the Braidwood Inquiry and proceed to blacklist him and THEN to act as if he's somehow at fault for them not noticing that files were not turned over for almost three years is really the issue. You can't have it both ways Mr. Bernoties.

<em>Editor's note: Police psychologist Mike Webster sent us the following letter in response to RCMP Supt Ray Bernoties's letter.</em>

Dear Editor,

I am writing in response to Mr. Bernoties (RCMP Communications) letter to you. Of course I am bound by my Code of Conduct as a psychologist and all the Acts of Parliament that he quoted, in relation to the care of the “TOP SECRET” files in my possession. And I likely should have called the RCMP to remind them that they had left their files behind with an “out to lunch” psychologist. HOWEVER, THAT IS NOT THE POINT!!! Don’t you think that after 3 days, or 3 weeks, or 3 months, or maybe 3 years that some “bright light” within the Nation’s Security Experts would have wondered where these highly sensitive files were? Of course you would!! But in depressingly dysfunctional fashion, no one in the RCMP had any idea that the files were missing, let alone who had them. All the “baffle gab” in the world will not get them out of this one. How can I be suffering a “mental breakdown” at the time of being blacklisted and now become a stand up guy babysitting their files!?

Oh and by the way, Mr. Bernoties criticizing Carlito Pablo for not calling him is like the pot calling the kettle black. When the media first showed interest in this story, around January 18th, I called Mr. Bernoties and he has yet to return my call. Perhaps if he had shown me the courtesy of a call back this all could have been avoided?

Dr. Mike Webster
Centurion Consulting Services
Denman Island BC