If the Cons can’t sell a paid-by-the-province-so-the-province-skates police force - let’s call them the Financed Alberta Provincial Police - that will want more money for less training and services (because they have a union and mounties can’t demand as much), then who CAN?

Right. OPP and SQ, the same noise from a different speaker as the FAPP.

The link no longer works and I wasn’t able to find the article on the CBC website but here’s a similar one:

https://calgaryherald.com/news/politics/alberta-no-longer-pursuing-plan-to-dump-rcmp-for-provincial-police-force