A 1997 report that suggested a border strike force aimed at PRC tribes

Hong Kong tycoons  such as Li Ka-Shing and  large companies such as Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. and China International Trust Investment Corporation (CITIC), a state-owned investment  firm, were implicated. However, CSIS  management disputed its findings and, according to a 1999 SIRC review, destroyed  relevant documents—a move the committee criticized as an "overly  broad interpretation" of  the transition files.
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Clement and Juneau-Katsuya identified the RCMP  officer who supported the June 1997 Sidewinder report as Chief  Inspector Richard Proulx, who oversaw national security  operations.
Juneau-Katsuya and  Clement's accounts—apparently the first time  he has spoken  publicly about the SIRC's  Sidewinder review—are consistent with a Globe and Mail  article citing a  letter from Proulx dated May 4,  1998. In  his letter, Proulx  expressed concern that the  revised version of Project Sidewinder had been  changed so significantly that it  distorted the original  conclusions.
"It has become clear that a  significant amount of information contained in the original  draft has been altered, sometimes inaccurately, and in some cases  completely removed," Proulx  wrote.
He objected to CSIS's decision to eliminate all of Sidewinder's recommendations, including the creation of a multi-agency task force to counter  Chinese state-sponsored criminal influence. The original report  would have proposed a joint intelligence unit involving CSIS, the RCMP,  customs and  immigration, and  representatives from Canada's  departments of foreign affairs and international  trade.
CSIS, in a letter responding to Proulx, acknowledged  rejecting Sidewinder's main conclusions:
"The service  does not and does not support the  conclusions or  directions of the original  version, produced under the banner of Project Sidewinder," CSIS wrote to Proulx, then director of the  RCMP's Criminal Intelligence  Directorate. According to the SIRC  investigation, the final version of  the Sidewinder report, released in January 1999,  came unacknowledged and was shared only with  senior RCMP officials and  a few government insiders,  ending the  investigation. Instead of a national security  review or the creation of the  Sidewinder interagency task force originally envisioned, the report was quietly  buried.
Now, more than two decades later, Washington is pressuring Ottawa to  create exactly the kind of organized crime strike force that Sidewinder originally proposed. As U.S. President Donald Trump threatens  draconian tariffs  for Canada's failure to  crack down on fentanyl trafficking and transnational smuggling,  Canada's long-forgotten intelligence  services are once again under scrutiny.

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