Report examined ‘shifts in domestic and international environments’ that could affect policing
Canadian elites still trying to scare Canadians into accepting a lower standard of living with less public services in exchange for privatization of industries, less restrictions on capital flow, and deregulation.
The report was prepared by the RCMP’s three-member Strategic Foresight and Methodology Team, a special section set up in February 2022
Yes. All three of them are in on it. /s
There’s nothing in the linked document that is surprising. Populism, fucked up supply chains, extreme weather due to climate change - all the stuff you’d expect.
Now, if you’d said they’re gunning for more funding, I could get behind that. The Canadian security establishment has a storied history of strategic leaks to a compliant press.
Wow, could that headline be any more clickbait?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“The global community has experienced a series of crises, with COVID-19, supply-chain issues, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine all sending shockwaves throughout the world,” says the report, entitled Whole of Government Five Year Trends for Canada.
“Over the course of the next five years, environmental scientists expect that increasingly violent and even concurrent storms, worsening drought, floods and persistent heat waves all over the globe will reduce the global output of a variety of commodities,” says the report.
“Law enforcement should also continue to contribute to policy change related to the privacy of personal information, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, quantum computing, digital ledger technology and more.”
“The damage to the economy and to the social fabric of the nation is ongoing, and there is an established opposition to existing and potential public health measures and other restrictions,” it says, citing a university study indicating there is more than a 10 per cent chance of another pandemic spreading in the near future.
Michael Kempa, University of Ottawa associate professor of criminology, welcomed the report and the existence of the special unit, saying the RCMP has been “struggling to meet its federal policing responsibilities.”
Christian Leuprecht, a Queen’s University and Royal Military College professor who specializes in defence and security, said the section of the report on the challenges posed by new information technologies — and the suggestion that law enforcement should “contribute to policy change” in response — stood out for him.
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