Complaining about your lot can be a criminal offense:
The report, released via the access to information regime and posted on the CBC News website, seeks to prepare the RCMP for “new and unexpected crises.”
While there has been an economic slowdown in the country, a full-blown recession has yet to materialize. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was slightly negative for two quarters since the RCMP report entered production, in the fourth quarter of 2022 (-0.2 percent) and in the third quarter of 2023 (-0.1 percent). Otherwise there has been muted growth in quarters, between 0.2 and 0.6 percent.
But Canadians are experiencing a fall of living standards as measured by GDP-per-capita and in comparison to their neighbours to the south. GDP-per-capita in Canada has been stagnating for the past decade and was at US$53,250 in 2023, compared to US$83,060 in the United States. The two countries were in a virtual tie in 2013. ...
The RCMP report was written a few months after the prime minister had faced cross-country protests against COVID-19 restrictions in the winter of 2022. Mr. Trudeau had accused the protesters of being a “small fringe minority” with “unacceptable views.” He eventually invoked the Emergencies Act to disperse the protests.
In short, the RCMP (which does not move unless the prime minister tells it to) is preparing for any sort of dissent or unrest due the economic downturn the country is taking.
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