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October 10, 2026 · News · By Young Hadene

Mounties' Union: New Financial-Crime Agency Will Gut the RCMP

Key Takeaways

  • RCMP union says new financial-crime agency will hurt the Mounties.
  • Fears files, funds and staff siphoned from strained force.
  • Liberals pitch specialization; union sees a raid.

The union representing thousands of Mounties warns the Liberals' planned financial-crime agency will hollow out an already strained RCMP — pulling files, funding and bodies into a new body while the old one bleeds.

Reform or raid?

Ottawa frames it as specialization; the union reads it as asset-stripping. Financial crime enforcement is already the RCMP's thinnest desk.

Follow the laundered money to Toronto

Condos, casinos, cars — the 6ix features in every Canadian money-laundering report ever written. Whatever agency chases dirty cash needs more resources, not reshuffled ones.

Sources: CBC News. Context from the Young Hadene newsroom.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the new agency?

A planned federal financial-crime enforcement body.

Why does the union object?

Says it strips the RCMP instead of strengthening enforcement.