B.C. licence plate fracas points to solution for NATO spending quandary

Loosening the restrictions on what counts as military spending could both soothe Donald Trump and ruffled veteran feathers.

In B.C., there’s a campaign against allowing retired members of the RCMP to have licence plates denoting them as ‘veterans.’ The Hill Times file photograph

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BY SCOTT TAYLOR

August 8, 2018

There is currently a debate raging throughout the British Columbia military community as to whether retired members of the RCMP should be entitled to special veteran vehicle licence plates. The Royal Canadian Legion grants provincial governments the authority to use their trademark poppy symbol on ...

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