Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino gives communities reprieve from steep Mountie raises negotiated by Ottawa
The federal government says it won’t bill provinces and municipalities for the retroactive portion of Mountie salaries while it considers whether to help shoulder some of the burden of a steep pay-raise package.
Because the new contract is retroactive, the Mounties are being paid back pay on a rising scale, as well as an additional 3 per cent to 4 per cent in annual retroactive pay premiums. This pause is significant considering the RCMP’s scale. The federal government has policing contracts with eight provinces, three territories and more than 150 municipalities. These decades-old deals install Mounties as local law-enforcement officers, covering three-quarters of Canada’s territory. More than one in five Canadians live in RCMP jurisdictions.
“As municipalities, we can’t run deficits. So if we receive a bill that we’re not anticipating, that we haven’t budgeted for, and that we weren’t consulted for, it makes it very difficult for us,” said Taneen Rudyk, an Alberta town councillor who is also president of the FCM. Mr. Donnelly said the current RCMP wage contract ends next year, meaning all levels of government soon will have to figure out how to approach a new round of wage bargaining.
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