Maryam Monsef on hot seat as Wortman Inquiries calls widen to include rural policing issues across Canada

can only MARYAM MONSEF save the TRUDEAU bacon on the WE-F**KED-UP scandal ?

Most Canadians - even rural Canadians - don’t even know that we have a  federal Minister of Rural Development or that her name is Maryam Monsef, but that is all about to change.

As the juicy details behind the WE Scandal emerge to fill media columns in the dog days of summer , only her response to the calls for a truly wide and open public inquiry on the Wortman shootings can save the federal Liberals’ bacon.

For Gabriel Wortman‘s killing spree is just the tip of a national scandal that dwarfs the tawdry WE affair.

What began as complaints about inadequate rural policing in a small part of Colchester County NS after the RCMP debacle that was the mounties ‘response’ to the Portapique shooter, has now spread right across Canada as rural voters in hundreds of federal ridings signal that Colchester’s unhappiness with the Mounties’ policing-by-wire is not unique.

Right across the work spectrum, employees in many organizations have secured pay packets well above a minimum wage only to discover that they are now badly overworked and stressed out as ever rising workloads are spread over fewer - but much better paid - employees : themselves.

So while RCMP detachments now all seem to inhabit shiny new big buildings with scads of mounties, the actual number of detachments has dropped sharply : those impressive new mountie detachment HQs now police areas of thousands of square kilometres.

As a sometime rural resident myself, let me state the bloody obvious : when I am being targeted as the possible victim of the next rural home invasion, I want the would-be criminals to reflect that one Mountie on site in my village is easily worth a dozen Mounties in an HQ a half hour away.

That the possibility of one mountie with a hand pistol bursting in on their backside is worth far more worry than a SWAT TEAM with carbines still stuck in traffic twenty km away as the thieves make their escape in the dark...