Harry Bond is blunt in his assessment of the RCMP\u0027s role on the night his mother and father died in the Nova Scotia mass shooting.
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And he said the explanations for these and a multitude of other shortcomings — including failures to probe early reports of domestic violence by the perpetrator — never seemed to begin with an admission that the force’s rural policing has failed to adapt to modern times. A poll commissioned by the force earlier this year showed only 51 per cent of Canadians believe the Mounties are honest, a drop of five percentage points from the year before. Only a third of Canadians feel the RCMP treat visible minorities and Indigenous people fairly.
“It’s all starting to collapse,” Merlo said. “I feel bad for the first responders, the ones that are doing the work.” The RCMP began as a national police force, and Boudreau argues they should return to those roots rather than stretching themselves thin across the country. They should be “looking at corporate crimes, national security and those kinds of things, not responding to 911 calls when someone’s stolen my ATV,” he said.
She said the force has identified five key priorities toward this goal, including addressing systemic racism and improving accountability.
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