The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is limiting the use of its 973 Chinese-made drones to non-sensitive operations, stating the devices present “high security risks, primarily due to their country of origin.”
Chinese drones make up about 80 per cent of the federal police force’s fleet of 1,230 remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS), which are used to monitor the Canada-U.S. border and in various police operations.
When a clip from our recent interview with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre went viral, the coverage said more about Canada’s media culture than about the exchange itself. It revealed how quickly political discussions can be stripped of context and turned into outrage fodder, a symptom of a news cycle that rewards speed over substance, and also focuses on polarizing content over nuanced dialogue.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says his accusations of political interference by the RCMP during former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s tenure were directed at the national police service’s former commissioner, not the institution itself.
“I stand shoulder to shoulder with the brave men and women in uniform who put their lives on the line every day to protect and serve,” Poilievre wrote in a statement on Monday. “Today and every day, I thank them for their service.”
Hit pieces galore in the media ostensibly about the RCMP “scandal”.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre took aim at the RCMP’s independence in a recent interview, calling the national police force’s leadership “despicable” and accused the national police force of covering up for the Liberal government and former prime minister Justin Trudeau.
“If the RCMP had been doing its job and not covering up for him, then he would have been criminally charged,” the Opposition leader said in an interview posted to YouTube on Wednesday.
Speaking to the YouTube channel Northern Perspective, Poilievre said Trudeau broke the law when he took a free vacation, a reference to the 2016 Aga Khan scandal.
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre says bluntly that the RCMP covered up all the Justin Trudeau scandals, which in some cases should have concluded with jail time.@NorthrnPrspectv pic.twitter.com/qZiXGVuSSA
— Beautifulcanada1 (@BeautifulCana1) October 15, 2025
RCMP Commish Duheme to Poilievre "So I think we've talked about SNC Lavalin quite a lot under the previous government, and I think it was clear that there's no interference."
"And as far as his comment with regards to senior management, I would invite Mr. Poilievre to meet with… pic.twitter.com/GPOgaBiZ6w
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) October 16, 2025
OTTAWA — The RCMP has closed its investigation into two alleged Montreal-area secret Chinese police stations in Quebec without laying charges.
In a statement, RCMP Quebec division spokesperson Cpl. Erique Gasse confirmed that the police force had closed the two-year-long investigation “recently.” The information was first reported by the Journal de Montréal.
OTTAWA – The early-1960s revelation that British spy Kim Philby had worked for Moscow alarmed Canadian intelligence officials who feared that he had betrayed confidences gleaned from Soviet defector Igor Gouzenko, once-secret archival records show.
Harold Adrian Russell “Kim” Philby was recruited by Russian intelligence in the 1930s. He joined Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, known as MI-6, during the Second World War, rising through the ranks to become a senior liaison officer in Washington from 1949 to 1951.
British intelligence eventually learned of Philby’s treachery and confronted him in Beirut in late 1962. Early the next year, Philby slipped aboard a freighter to the Soviet Union, where he was granted asylum and lived until his death in 1988.
The handgun at the centre of an RCMP investigation on Prince Edward Island has been the subject of a flurry of lawsuits and counter-lawsuits involving its manufacturer — and was recently acquired in large numbers by the Canadian Armed Forces.
The pistol, a SIG Sauer P320, allegedly misfired while in a Charlottetown police officer’s holster on Sept. 4.
Several U.S. law enforcement agencies have either suspended or discontinued use of the pistol this year over alleged safety concerns. The gun was also at the centre of an investigation by one branch of the American military following the accidental death of a U.S. Air Force security airman in July.
TORONTO — Canada’s federal police stonewalled a U.S. government request six years ago to jointly investigate a surge of Canadian commercial trucks traveling into the southern United States to pick up staggering amounts of cocaine and methamphetamine from Mexican cartels and drive it back into Canada for consumption and onward shipment overseas, a U.S. official told The Bureau.
They said the refusal was another major example of non-cooperation between American and Canadian police—alongside allegations that the RCMP also blocked DEA efforts to probe the fentanyl superlab in Falkland, B.C.—and helps explain why cartel trafficking into Canadian cities has exploded in recent years.
The number of RCMP officers on long-term sick leave has surged by 184 per cent over the past 15 years, according to a report from the RCMP Management Advisory Board (MAB).
The oversight body, which advises the RCMP Commissioner, found that from January 2010 to January 2024, the rate of regular members on extended leave jumped from 28.5 per 1,000 officers to 81 per 1,000.
At the beginning of 2025, seven per cent of the force – or 1,413 regular members – were on leave due to illness, injury or disability lasting more than 30 consecutive days. Of those, 580 officers had been away for more than a year, while 243 had been on leave for over two years.
OTTAWA — The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, once a proud symbol of Canadian law and order, is now an institution in crisis. Reports that nearly 20 percent of members are off on sick leave confirm what many of us who have served and worked alongside the RCMP have known for years: the force is no longer capable of fulfilling its federal policing mandate.
Instead of standing at the forefront of the fight against transnational organized crime, terrorism financing, cybercrime, and foreign interference, the RCMP is bogged down in contract policing, backfilling gaps with temporary duty assignments, and diverting precious resources to VIP security. What was once a national force is now an overstretched patchwork, trying—and failing—to be all things to all people.
h/t SC
The proportion of Mounties on long-term, off-duty sick leave has reached an all-time high and become a critical issue for the national police force, according to a new outside report.
The Management Advisory Board (MAB), an oversight body that advises the RCMP commissioner, is warning that the existing model of unlimited sick leave at full pay is unsustainable and in need of a rethink in order to get more officers back on patrol — recommendations that are already garnering vehement disagreement from the RCMP union.
The union representing front-line Royal Canadian Mounted Police members wants the force to ease requirements for foreign applicants to help attract experienced police officers from agencies like the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and counterparts in the United Kingdom and Australia.
The RCMP currently requires that applicants be Canadian citizens or have permanent resident status in Canada. Applicants with permanent resident status must have lived in Canada as a permanent resident for three of the last five years.
Sounds great but face it no one from any western nation will want to take up residence in the shithole state that Canada has become.
My bet is the RCMP will see a boom in applicants from ButtFekistan and Fekbuttistan etc. largely because they’ll be accorded special consideration by our elite.
The recent comments from RCMP Staff Sergeant Camille Habel, who decried traditional values as a path to extremism, should be fuel for every Albertan committed to building a provincial police force that truly reflects our values, not Ottawa’s vision of what we should become.
Habel’s statement, framing beliefs rooted in community and local culture as potentially dangerous, highlights a growing disconnect between the RCMP and the values that Albertans hold dear. This underscores the urgent need for a police force that is accountable to our province and its distinct way of life.
OTTAWA — Go to any event featuring RCMP in ceremonial dress, and you’re bound to see Mounties wearing the red serge, blue and yellow breeches, a Sam Browne belt, brown Strathcona boots, and a wide-brimmed, beige Stetson.
The hat, nicknamed the “red Stetson,” has appeared as part of the RCMP uniform on stamps, posters, promotional videos and even documentaries. It is a core piece of the Mounties’ iconic image and an internationally recognizable piece of Canadiana.
A Quebec RCMP officer is under criminal investigation for making threatening comments in connection with U.S. President Donald Trump’s visit to the G7, our Bureau of Investigation has learned.
According to our information, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) employee was deployed to Alberta last month as part of the G7, a gathering of heads of state from the world’s largest economies.
Clearly the extremists are inside the gates.
The GeRCs have been compromised, but we knew that already. @fancypants_s https://t.co/0LTHrmT83f
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) July 11, 2025
h/t Auntie Polly
