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If you feel that law enforcement can use deadly force simply to stop "illiberal" acts you are misunderstanding the law. Define 'public disorder". Should police be able to gun down students at the Queen's homecoming?

The need for tile can sometimes be driven by what lies below. When we had our 56 acres hobby farm (north of there), we had about 24-30" of beautiful clear, loamy soil, on top of heavy clay. If the topsoil got saturated - like a wet spring - it took a long time to sufficiently dry out.

I recall the public word being that they felt the likely theatre they would face would middle eastern rather than forests and grasslands.

Will they be expected to care about toques and gloves?

All the good intentions in the world can be undone by poor board governance, poor financial management and rogue volunteers.

Perhaps. It's all media attention. If supporters were or became organized and held press conferences and demonstrations they would probably get media attention. Keep in mind that, even with a democratically elected chief and council, pure democracy does not thrive on a FNT. Council still...

No doubt, but where it is still stronger the more local it is.

As do every major, and probably most smaller, police services in Canada. I would argue that volunteerism is stronger at the local level.

I recall an instance a few years ago in either Alberta or BC surrounding some dam, pipeline, forest cutting or other event of the day when a hereditary chief was 'disenfranchised' by their council because they took a contrary view. It seems 'hereditary' can have a fluid meaning. One things...

Translation: more money please. Or, as some have said: traditional governance vs White Man's law.

The conceptual conundrum is determining when the State, taken as a whole, no longer serves the people, taken as a whole, not just some people feeling aggrieved by the folks in power at the time.

Deploying your military in your own cities and having your cabinet and federal agents treat your Constitution like toilet paper is detrimental to a Nobel nomination? Who knew.

So what does a civil society do when one armed group of people exercising their agency butts up against another armed group of people exercising their agency? Let them duke it out? To take sides would seem to interfere with at least part of the proletariat exercising their agency.

Not even considering the fact that the CAF is having trouble recruiting along with law enforcement (some more than others) and now we would want to establish yet another entity, a national entity apparently, to do what . . . deploy every time some anti-abortionists, university students or Raging...

Operational/service delivery fleets are often different than admin vehicles, certainly different than ministerial or cabinet vehicles.

Yup. I get that corporate fleets do that now for things like productivity and efficiency, but those aren't usually things governments care about. :) I wonder if they have the same level of tracking on vehicles operated by OPSEU members; they're always a fun bunch. I just saw on another forum...

I don't know but suspect that, if they do, it is a technical ceiling and probably fairly high. I was just going by the full text of the article. (snip) I'm just surprised if the government has that level of tracking and recording of administrative vehicles.

In today's news, https://www.insauga.com/speed-cameras-only-issue-tickets-to-drivers-going-11-km-h-above-the-limit-in-brampton/ Mayor Brown had this to say, He's broken the Cone of Silence by revealing the unofficial speed limit. No doubt the municipal brethren will be confronting him at the...

Beyond a reminder that there are large police services of jurisdiction beyond the RCMP, law enforcement tactics and equipment generally follow the society they exist in. In my time, it evolved from .38 revolvers, no body armour and few dedicated specialty teams to semi autos, a rifle in every...

Thanks. To be honest, my mind was thinking October Crisis when I wrote that; although in hindsight that was still aid to the civil power and, if I recall, largely site/infrastructure security. The arrests, investigation were carried out by the police as I recall. Recalling watching the events...