I say, screw ’em. If you’re a law enforcement agency and you try to ‘blackmail’ a province, you can go fuck yourself.
Hardball federal negotiators have demanded that B.C. accept Ottawa’s last offer for a new 20-year policing deal by Nov. 30, or RCMP services will be withdrawn at the beginning of 2014.
The current agreement between the parties expires next March 31.B.C. has the largest provincial RCMP contingent in Canada, employing about 6,000 officers in more than 60 municipalities.
Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts blasted Ottawa’s threatened withdrawal.
“It’s outrageous,” she said. “They have basically walked away from negotiations and said: ‘You have to sign this, or we’re pulling all of our officers from the province.’ ”
