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Subscribe to RSSLONDON -- The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have become Queen Elizabeth II's personal bodyguards -- for a day, at least.
In a nod to family history, Britain's queen invited the Mounties to take part in her Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Fifteen members of the police force, in their iconic red jackets, changed roles with the Royal Mounted Regiment on Wednesday.
The Mounties also brought a few women with them to shake things up.
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Like Australia, Canada is still a puppet nation to The British.
Man, you are funny. I think I will go have an intelligent conversation with my 5 year old now. But, thanks for the humour.
Your insults show your true intelect. May you be rewarded by all Australians and Canadians in the manner you have chosen to treat them!!
I totally agree shankar, this 'Royal Crap' but it will go when 'Betty Windsor' goes to the 'Palace in the sky', don't know why it has lasted so long, especially when the Queen's representative ousted the Whitlam government in the '70's.
When 'Betty' has her 'Diamond Jubilee' and the olympics have finished, what does that 'Empire' have going for it?, sweet f a. God save the queen and all that sink with her.
ah yes the dudley doo=rights of canada, where the hell is nell?!and whiplash? has to be around there someplace,, probably plotting to kidnap the queen, but with all those dudley doorights there, she is safe hjahahahahahaa not
Oh, lighten up fellas. Of course there'll always be a monarch in England.
There will always be a monarch in England much better than some of the fly by night head of states you get in places like the US. How relevant the monarch is to the rest of the world is the question but in England the vast majority of people couldn't be happier with the monarch.
Agreed. Read any story about monarchy and you'll find the usual negative comments, trotted out by people who spew the same old rhetoric, over and over. Treachery, greed, and other unsavory traits are also found in political systems that don't have monarchs; they are HUMAN traits, not "royal" traits. Many kings and queens have been good rulers. Humans are the only creatures that "elect" their leaders, with elections being followed of course by whining and ranting from the "losers" until the next election. A constitutional monarchy embodies the soul of a nation, it's aspirations, and it's collective history. Not too shabby, that.
If this story were transcribed, I'd swear it was from "Weekly Reader".
Shankar you may be right, but if we really want to talk about puppets, the US is israhell's puppet, and I am not sure how far israhell's hand goes up the US a$$....
Zip it up Zippy12!
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is the national police force of Canada and one of the most recognized of its kind in the world. It is unique in the world as a national, federal, provincial and municipal policing body. The RCMP provides policing services to all of Canada at a federal level, and also on a contract basis to the three territories, eight of Canada's provinces, more than 190 municipalities, 184 aboriginal communities, and three international airports.
Federal operations include: enforcing federal laws including commercial crime, counterfeiting, drug trafficking, border integrity, organized crime; providing counter-terrosim and domestic security; providing protection services for the Monarch, Governor General, Prime Minister, visiting digitaries, and diplomatic missions.
Under provincial and municipal contracts the RCMP provides front-line policing in all areas outside of Ontario and Quebec that do not have an established local police force. This includes the investigation of major crimes such as homicides, forensic identificatification services, police dog services, emergency response teams, explosives disposal, undercover operations, and others. Under its National Police Services branch the RCMP provides support to all police forces in Canada through the operation of support services such as the Canadian Police Information Center, the Criminal Intelligence Service Canada, Forensic Science and Identification Services, the Canadian Firearms Progam and the Canadain Police College.
So Zippy12 - your Dudley-Do-Right comment was inept - but - Zippa Dee Doo Dah - maybe you learned something today!
Thanks ococ for a through explaination! You might want to add that the RCMP have provided security to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and to other members of the Royal family and other heads of state, when she, and they, have visited Canada. This was the first time that a non-military regiment has provided security to the Queen while she has been in residence at Buckingham Palace. And while it might mean nothing to the trolls, it meant a great deal to the members of the RCMP and was three years in the planning, and bluntly it was an honour both ways.