🇨🇦 Ottawa leaves provinces hanging on policing

Six years before RCMP contracts expire in 2032, the premiers are already begging Ottawa for clarity. That tells you everything about federal competence. The same state that lectures Canadians about safety cannot even tell eight provinces, three territories and roughly 150 municipalities what its national police force will look like. Staffing shortages, vacancies, rising costs, governance chaos, all of it was laid out in the premiers’ communiqué, as reported.

Trudeau-era decay did not just hollow out the economy and border control, it infected core state capacity. Gary Anandasangaree says Ottawa is committed to keeping the Mounties in front-line policing while also prioritizing federal crime, which is bureaucrat-speak for doing both badly. Provinces pay 70 per cent of these contracts and still get uncertainty, delays and dysfunction from the capital. No wonder Alberta is exploring its own police service and Surrey already dumped the RCMP. A sovereign country cannot run on vague promises from a detached federal class that treats basic public order like another panel discussion.

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