RCMP has at least a few world class operators.
I expect this guy won’t remain on the loose for long. Doesn’t sound like a guy who could hold out in the mountains on his own for any real time.
Maybe—or maybe Due South and other PR things have given them a great reputation.
They don’t have as major a roll in Ontario as many other provinces thanks to the OPP, but I have heard that they are worse than the OPP when it comes to jack-bootedness, and the OPP is bad enough. Last year, a couple across the street was having difficulties, the OPP was called, the rest of the family had left the house by the time they arrived, the guy declined to leave the house or have the OPP in to talk and also mentioned that he had a gun, and in a few hours (it takes a few hours to get the folks in), I had a sniper on my front porch, and another in my woodpile, and there are all sorts of other guys running around in combat fatigues, and military-type vehicles in reserve-—all for a guy with one hand. They also didn’t end up having much to charge him with after he came out (his mother went in, talked to him and accompanied him). I was told that the RCMP would have been much worse.