Mark Skarr Wrote:An aside: in Canada, only Ontario and Québec have provincial police forces (the Ontario Provincial Police and the Sûreté du Québec, respectively); all the other provinces and territories rely on the RCMP for what an American would expect to be done by a State Trooper. Thus, the Edicts also discriminate based on place of residence...Dartz Wrote:'Undetected' metahumans, or for that matter, civilian contractors who just happen to be in the area. Depending on the country, the Police are a civil, not a military force. I'm sure there's a loophole for them to politely abuse.Bob covered this in a side bar in IST:
IST, pg 60 Wrote:The Edicts of 1982 banned nationalized super military forces. It did not force civil servants who happened to be metahumans to lose their jobs, unless the job was designated as a military specialty. In the United States, state National Guard units and the Coast Guard both qualify under that definition. Police functions, though, are a special case. A national police force qualifies as a military operation under the Edicts; thus Britain has no supers in the CID, nor can any Canadian super publicly operate as a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. In general, the U.N. looks upon metahuman policemen as metahuman soldiers.The US police force is different. However, the Canadian point is that the U.N., by forcing Metahumans, who are willing volunteers, out of a certain job market, is committing discrimination based on genetic disposition.
On the other hand, the Canadian Coast Guard is a civilian body under the umbrella of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
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Rob Kelk
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