The National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians began reviewing the RCMP’s role in February 2021, and was meant to establish baseline knowledge about the Mounties’ mandate and capabilities.
In addition to being the police of jurisdiction for much of rural Canada, the RCMP mandate includes national security, organized crime, personal protection for the prime minister and other dignitaries and cybercrime. In March, the public inquiry investigating an April 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia called on the public safety minister to review and restructure the RCMP.The inquiry’s commissioners said the RCMP should keep the tasks suitable for a federal policing agency, and other responsibilities should be reassigned.
The inquiry had heard weeks worth of evidence about the RCMP’s failures during and after the shootings. Gunman Gabriel Wortman disguised himself as a Mountie when he shot and killed 22 people, including a pregnant woman, in rural Nova Scotia. The RCMP did not publicly release information about his disguise for hours, despite having a number of credible reports from witnesses, and failed to adequately warn the public about the ongoing manhunt.
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