Twilight of the Mounties

After being formed as the Northwest Mounted Police to guard the new Canadian border against the incursion of American guns and whiskey in the late 1800's, the RCMP has increasingly been forced into the impossible task of policing the second-largest country by land mass -- almost 10 million square kilometres from coast to coast to coast.

Only two Canadian provinces and territories have their own police forces -- the Ontario Provincial Police and Sûreté du Québec. In the rest of the country if there is no municipal police force there's just the Mounties. They have to enforce everyday matters like DUI, thefts and domestic disputes.

IMHO it's time for the RCMP to go back to its original role of protecting our borders.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/09/canadian-mounted-police-mounties-regain-trust

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