RCMP

An RCMP police car in front of Parliament in Ottawa (Marc Bruxelle/Alamy)

The RCMP is broken

The iconic force is fraying under the strain of its rural policing model, tragic mistakes, an ugly past and a controversial present
RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki is seen during a news conference in Ottawa on Apr. 20, 2020. (Adrian Wyld/CP)

Brenda Lucki must go

Pam Palmater: The problem isn’t Indigenous culture, it’s RCMP culture, where racial profiling, harassment, brutality and the killing of Indigenous peoples is somehow justified