National Security Risk? Meet Alberta’s New Police Chief with Foreign Ties: Satpal Singh Parhar

On July 2, 2025, Premier Danielle Smith appointed Satpal Singh Parhar (a.k.a. Sat Parhar) as the inaugural chief of Alberta’s new provincial police force—despite what critics call a “tainted past.”

We combed through court filings, corporate records, and government tenders, uncovering findings that raise serious national security concerns for both Canada and the United States, especially given Alberta’s shared border with Montana.

Our investigation uncovered the following about Chief Satpal Singh Parhar:

📌He is president and shareholder (through a numbered company) of ReTrain Canada.

📌ReTrain Canada powers ReTrain Nigeria, which offers courses in cybersecurity and lists Huawei—the Chinese tech giant banned by Canada and the U.S. over espionage risks—as a client.

📌Until recently, he was president of a mental health clinic treating RCMP officers, despite holding financial ties to Huawei via another firm.

📌He was previously accused of nepotism in a lawsuit filed by fellow Calgary Police officer Bruce Walker.

📌He was once the subject of an investigation for allegedly failing to investigate internal misconduct involving evidence fabrication.

📌His company, ReTrain Canada, received several non-competitive, sole-sourced federal contracts—one worth nearly $100,000.

📌He is currently named in an active $3.5 million lawsuit filed by a former Calgary Police officer who was acquitted of breach of trust charges.

📌Appears to have no formal post-secondary education, aside from scattered certificates.

📌The Calgary Police Chief who promoted him to Deputy Chief—Roger Chaffin—was accused by his successor, Chief Mark Neufeld, of authorizing a $500,000 "sham" severance package for a legal counsel who gave herself a $50,000 raise.

Just hours after we sent a media inquiry to Chief Parhar regarding undisclosed business ties omitted from his LinkedIn profile, his profile was deleted.

"Danielle Smith wants this guy looking after the Canada-U.S. border where massive amounts of drug transport is taking place every single day," protests Bob Rai, a concerned Albertan who lived through the nightmare of having the police investigation into his cousin's tragic death compromised by a fake Nigerian forensic pathologist whose medical diploma has never been primary source verified.

Concerned about the integrity of this new police force, Mr. Rai raises questions about what kind of police force will be created under Chief Parhar's leadership—especially given his business ties to immigration firms and Premier Danielle Smith's new policy to grant foreign police officers a pathway to PR for policing Albertans.

"I think that this is absolutely ridiculous, I think she is trying to grow her own private police force -- and become her own little dictator," expressed Rai.

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