Whatever reservations you may have about the RCMP's first civilian commissioner, Bill Elliot has started off making a bright move - he won't wear the uniform.
I think if Elliot had decided to dress up like a real honest-to-God mountie, it would have sent discontent racing through the force. You have to make it through Depot to be entitled to wear the hat, the boots and the red serge.
Much as it may be hoped that the force will benefit from having an outsider at the top, I would think at some point that leadership ought to revert to a veteran of the force, not a bureaucrat.
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