Canadians seem to have very much more the idea that the government is on their side. In the United States, people seem to think the government is something to be worried about. "The public in the United States and Canada have very different notions of what is the role of government. "My feeling is the cultural differences between the United States and Canada are more than we tend to give them credit for," says John Eck, associate director for research at the Police Executive Research Forum in Washington. Part of the reason for the different takes, say law-and-order experts, is that the Mounties are a reflection of the very stuff of Canada. The difference is the image: Hollywood myth-making aside, the Mounties are, in the national mind's eye, almost universally perceived as genteel and professional, while some of their American counterparts are now mired in broad perceptions of shame and doubt. Across Canada, Mounties serve as the equivalent of state troopers, county sheriffs, municipal beat patrol officers, FBI agents and customs agents. Bayley, a State University of New York criminal-justice professor who has ridden in squad cars - as a researcher - on both sides of the border. "The approach to the job is exactly the same" as an American police officer's, says David H. Today's Mounties almost always go about their business in standard police uniforms, and break out the scarlet tunics, jodhpurs and Stetsons on state occasions only. Rather, the Mounties' official saying is "Uphold the Right."Īnd the visitor coming to Canada in search of one of those scarlet-clad men on the Canadian government tourist posters is apt to be disappointed. Nor is there any "He always gets his man" motto in circulation. The only horses the force keeps stabled today are a few trained animals meant for ceremonial precision rides. In real life, the Mounties have not been mounted for years. In fact, he did just about everything on horseback: plunging through blizzards, leaping off cliffs, picking his way over mountaintops. The Hollywood Mountie's single, irresistible, fleshly pleasure seemed to be singing, which he usually did from the back of a horse. They pictured the constables as gallant heroes who invariably chose institutional duty over love, food, even - in a couple of pictures - over their own twin brothers.
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Movie makers contributed more than their share to Mountie hagiography. Canadians often as not refer to them as "the RCMP," and the Mounties themselves like to talk about "the Force." The Mounties name seems to have established itself in 1920s Hollywood.
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