Never forget that Canada was founded to protect the interests of a blanket retailer.
And the RCMP, too. It is kinda fucked that so many police forces around the world were founded for highly authoritarian reasons. The French National police and the police of many European countries have their origin in Nazi occupied Europe and many of the resistance crushing leaders remained in charge after the war. Maurice Papon sent many Jews to the death camps during WW2 and repressed his own countrymen and had resistance fighters arrested and executed.
Yet after the Nazis were defeated he forged papers to make himself look like a resistance member and he continued his life of crime, committing crimes in Algeria and the massacre of Paris. He only spent a few years in prison towards the end of his life when it all came down. He died a free man.
And the RCMP, too. It is kinda fucked that so many police forces around the world were founded for highly authoritarian reasons. The French National police and the police of many European countries have their origin in Nazi occupied Europe and many of the resistance crushing leaders remained in charge after the war. Maurice Papon sent many Jews to the death camps during WW2 and repressed his own countrymen and had resistance fighters arrested and executed.
Yet after the Nazis were defeated he forged papers to make himself look like a resistance member and he continued his life of crime, committing crimes in Algeria and the massacre of Paris. He only spent a few years in prison towards the end of his life when it all came down. He died a free man.