Harley, 10-year-old wannabe Mountie, gets to sit on an RCMP Harley

Just a few months ago, a boy named Harley Liu wrote a letter to the RCMP with a dream: he wanted to be one of them.

On Friday, the 10-year-old took one step toward making that dream a reality: with a Stetson on his head, he sat on an RCMP Harley.

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In May, Liu handwrote a letter to the RCMP saying he wanted to join the force when he grew up.

He said he wanted to become a Mountie because “serving our country is very important and RCMP is a cool job!”

Harley asked what he would have to do to become a Mountie.

And the Burnaby RCMP detachment was only to happy to set him on the path.

The detachment presented him with a Stetson and gave him a chance to sit on an RCMP motorcycle — a Harley-Davidson, of course.

“I think it’s a pretty cool job,” Harley said of being a Mountie.

“It’s like, doing what you want to and then you get paid, it’s really cool.”

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Staff Sgt. Major. John Buis wanted to meet Harley after he wrote the letter.

He said the boy is “well on his way to becoming a member of the RCMP.”