B.C. considers provincial police after Ottawa threatens RCMP withdrawal

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Public Safety Minister Vic Toews (Mr. Accountability) was nowhere to be found...



Ottawa is threatening to pull all RCMP municipal detachments out of British Columbia if the province does not sign a take-it-or-leave-it new policing contract by the end of November.

B.C. Solicitor-General Shirley Bond said the federal government’s ultimatum leaves the province with no option but to begin investigating the possibility of re-establishing its own police force, something it hasn’t had since 1950.



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