Leadership requires decisive action when the lives of citizens are at stake

The RCMP is a failed institution built with archaic structures that protect internal wrongdoing, including racism against Indigenous peoples and deaths of citizens at the hands of police.

RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki, pictured April 20, 2020, on the Hill. Public Safety Minister Bill Blair, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau must stop protecting a broken structure led by an ineffective commissioner, and start leading with decisive action. It’s time for RCMP Commissioner Lucki’s resignation, writes Rose LeMay. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ROSE LEMAY

November 2, 2020

OTTAWA—Canada has a value of finding the middle ground and saying nice things, but it tends to backfire when applied to cases of ineffective leadership. The prime minister said he stands by RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki despite her defence of RCMP officers who allowed white mobs to attack First N...

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