Why handing over Parliamentary security to the Mounties is a bad idea

Mounties generally make poor security guards. Nobody joins the RCMP to check passes or idle outside embassies and federal buildings.

On Oct. 22, 2014, downtown Ottawa was in a state of lockdown as an armed gunman killed a reservist and stormed Parliament Hill with a loaded weapon. Four months late...

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