A Call For Unity: All RCMP Members Are Invited To Join Forces With QMPMA

National Police Federation

For more than 30 long years, the Quebec Mounted Police Members’ Association or QMPMA has positioned itself at the epicenter of the labor movement of the RCMP. All throughout these years, the association has played a key role in supporting the members and associations of RCMP who have worked really hard just to acquire the Supreme Court of Canada's commendatory landmark decision last year, something that they are very proud of. Their directors and executives have also invested much time for the revision and preparation of all the documentations that the association needed to improve Bill C-7.

These past few months, the association has been attending meetings with the members of parliament, senators, and other influential political personalities in Ottawa and Quebec. The members of the association have likewise actively participated in the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security sessions. The committee is the one responsible for reviewing not just the legislation policies, but also the expenditure plans and programs of the different agencies and departments of the government that are responsible for:

Ensuring both the national security and the public safetyPolicing and strict enforcement of the lawManaging emergenciesProtecting the borders of CanadaPreventing crimesCorrection of the federal offendersConditional release federal inmates

The Unified Group of NPF, MPPAC and QMPMABy virtue of the measures implemented since May 17, 2016, and through a council of union organizations, the members of RCMP are now allowed to acquire accreditation. They are also legally mandated to stand as the representative of all the members who wish to get unionized. The unified group have reached out to all the regular RCMP members and have encouraged them to pick the QMPMA as their negotiating representative.

The union does not aim to push a single association or to divide the vote, but to have someone who is readily available to stand in behalf of the association in labor relations negotiations.

According to the current president of the QMPMA, Paul Dupuis, the association strongly believes that the only logical way to unionizing is uniting the efforts of all the member associations of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). Although each RCMP members association has its own strengths and weaknesses, all the associations are still under the roof of RCMP and they all still belong to the same family.

The Call for Uniting Under a Council of Association

The QMPMA has always maintained a direct and open contact with the National Police Federation (NPF) and the Mounted Police Professional Association of Canada (MPPAC). And because of this, they were able to know that the RCMP members of Quebec have been wanting to build a union the soonest possible time.

The QMPMA is inviting all the members of the RCMP, including the NPF, and MPPAC, to join their association so that they can bind their forces for the amelioration of RCMP and for the benefit of its members.

Regardless of whether you are a QMPMA, MPPAC, or NPF member, now is the best time for you to act, to get involved, to stay informed, and to join the association.