Proposed Reforms for RCMP Panned by Professor, Former Mounties

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino rises during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on June 14, 2022. The Canadian Press/ Patrick Doyle

A stronger role for the RCMP’s management advisory board, as suggested by Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, will do little to solve its fundamental problems, say an Ottawa criminology professor and some retired Mounties.

Mendicino said in early June that his department was looking into “how best to strengthen the oversight role of the RCMP’s Management Advisory Board.”