Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day says he has taken the first major step in reforming the RCMP, announcing the creation of a new council to oversee the overhaul of the force.
"It's one more step toward the changes that have to take place to make this organization even stronger than it is today," Day said Thursday morning.
The appointment of the implementation council, chaired by David McAusland, a top executive at Alcan Inc., is one of the key recommendations laid out by a task force that was asked by Ottawa to investigate structural problems plaguing the RCMP.
The council will ensure the RCMP follows the recommendations — one of which called for the force to become a separate entity from the federal government, with its own civilian board of managers.
Splitting the RCMP from the federal government would allow the force to make decisions about human resources and finances, the task force said. Those decisions are currently made by the federal treasury board, a slow bureaucratic process, the task force said.
Another recommendation was the creation of a new civilian board of managers to oversee the RCMP's finances, resources, personnel and properties.
As well, the task force, headed by David Brown, the former head of the Ontario Securities Commission, called for a new independent commission to deal with complaints.
Other members of the implementation council include:
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Stumble It!
Now that's the irony, "public safety" means putting a lid on the national police force! The fact that it has come to this (repeatedly) is an indication of how bad things have become.
""It's one more step toward the changes that have to take place to make this organization even stronger than it is today," Day said Thursday morning."
Now that is a very scary statement to make. The RCMP's grip on power and abuse needs to be made weaker, not stronger than it is today.
"The appointment of the implementation council, chaired by David McAusland, a top executive at Alcan Inc., .."
So there you have it, the RCMP will now be ruled over by the corporate elite. To hell with public input, Harper the dictator will just appoint his corporate cronies into running the show. Expect to see protesters who block corporate development get machine gunned down by the RCMP.
Under a neocon agenda, everything goes from bad to worse.