On the other hand, his connections with the billionaire class might be quite useful in getting them to invest in our country at a time when the economy is in a rough spot and could use the help. Ideally we wouldn’t be in a position where that was important, but we shouldn’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
From the article, he took a leave for “secondary employment” to write a book about being black in the RCMP, which he considers to be work done as a private citizen that he wholly owns. When he was tasked with creating the workshop a couple years later, he used material/research from that book as part basis for some of the course.
Reading a bit between the lines, the argument seems to be that he was happy for the RCMP to freely use material from his work when it was only going to be used for their own officers, but expansion to a larger national program offered to other police forces was beyond the original license to use his work.
The RCMP did remove his work (and him) from the course though. Whether that’s just avoiding the mess entirely, punitive, or because they think his claim is credible is beyond me to judge.