This is why $220 million was not enough to fix the RCMP

The RCMP’s workplace culture has been called “dysfunctional,” proven to have affected their policing ability and derailed decades of attempts at reform. Can civilian oversight change that?

In a new Global News investigative series, reporter Jane Gerster looks at how $220 million in taxpayer funds has been spent over 20 years due to the fallout from mismanagement of the Mounties, from sexual harassment lawsuits to federal inquiries into workplace bullying.

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In this episode of the Global News podcast, This is Why, Gerster sits down with Niki Reitmayer and explains what she uncovered.

Watch: former Mounties share their experiences

7:12 Former Mounties open up about RCMP’s toxic work culture

• Former Mounties open up about RCMP’s toxic work culture
• Former Mountie explains why Canadians should care about RCMP management
• How the Mountie image can affect its ability to police
• ‘Conform or leave’: criminologist explains how RCMP’s structure impacts its members
• ‘This organization is so dysfunctional’
• Parachute policing: How Mounties serve communities across Canada
• Is it time to start fresh with the RCMP?
• Can a Mountie be expected to fix the Mounties?
• Why ‘the RCMP needs to be… blown up’
• “To criticize the RCMP… is to criticize Canada”
• Should the Mounties be a ceremonial force only?
• Why the first woman to sue the RCMP for sexual harassment wanted to be a Mountie
• The men barked at the women like dogs, ex-Mountie says
• Alice Clark on the sexual harassment and culture of bullying in the RCMP
• Historian says the Mounties’ modern scandals are nothing new
• ‘Being a martyr in this game will kill you,’ says former Mountie

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