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And that brings back the point of: if government wants a "smaller bayonet", so to speak, government also has to live with the fact that it may not be able to conduct "combat" ops as we know them now.soccerplayer131 said:3) What would happen if Canada went back to combat? If this happened today, and tomorrow Parliament decides to send ground troops to fight ISIS, how would that be done? Does the Constitution allow people considered Peace Officers under the Criminal Code to participate in combat missions as LEOs? Would this weaken the national security, by not having dedicated, combat-ready troops, specializing in an array of ops?
On the other hand, there's also recent examples of gendarmes working in combat environments (Italy in Iraq, for example), so it's not impossible, but different rules would have to be drawn up and different jobs may have to be undertaken.
Contrary to the buzz-word peddlers out there, you can't always do the same or more with less.