The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is no longer fit for purpose. Reflecting on his career in the RCMP from 1973 to 2003, Garry Clement recounts his childhood in rural Ontario; his RCMP training in Regina; his drug-bust days based in British Columbia, Montreal, and Toronto; his work battling the Chinese Communist Party's infiltration of Canada; his role in the Parliament Hill bus hijacking; his involvement in the post-9/11 Maher Arar inquiry; his impact on the RCMP's Proceeds of Crime program and on anti-money laundering in Canada and abroad; and his reasons for leaving the RCMP. Under Cover provides a gripping and vulnerable inside look into the corruption of politics and policing in Canada. In light of the mounting complexities of transnational organized crime, terrorism, cybercrime, and financial crime, Clement calls for a complete revamping of the culture of federal policing. We need a fundamental structural reformation of the RCMP. Garry Clement offers direct recommendations for how to approach such a task. Garry Clement has 34 years of policing experience. An expert and advocate for financial-crime prevention, he has worked as the national director for the RCMP's Proceeds of Crime program and as an investigator and undercover operator in some of the highest organized-crime levels throughout Canada. During Garry's policing career, he received numerous awards and commendations for his investigative abilities, inclusive of recognitions from the US Drug Enforcement Administration and the CIA. "Garry Clement is a national treasure. He's spent his life in service to Canada, and I guarantee he knows more than anyone about international organized crime, drug trafficking, money laundering, and the state actors-China, Iran, Mexico, Russia-who today pose a major national security threat to Canada. This book should be required reading by every politician and bureaucrat in Ottawa, and everyone else who cares about the future of this country." - Jeffrey Robinson, bestselling author of The Laundrymen, The Merger, and The Sink

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