🇨🇦 RCMP Abandon Their Own Vehicles at Potlotek — Then Detail the Damage in Writing

RCMP officers responding to a First Nations protest at Potlotek in Nova Scotia left the scene on foot, abandoning six police vehicles to the crowd. The official damage report, confirmed by the RCMP, includes broken windows, flat tires, dents, and — the detail that the press buried in paragraph four — urine-soaked interior surfaces. A Nova Scotia highway was blocked in connection with the same protest over a cannabis enforcement crackdown. The highway eventually reopened. The RCMP vehicles will presumably be cleaned at taxpayer expense. The optics here are not subtle: Canada's national police force retreated on foot from a protest scene, left their vehicles behind as trophies, and then issued a clinical damage assessment. Whether one agrees or disagrees with the underlying cannabis dispute is beside the point. A state that cannot maintain basic law enforcement consistency — enforcing laws uniformly, holding ground, recovering its own property — is a state whose authority is being selectively applied based on political sensitivity. Every Canadian watching this understands what it signals.

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