"Instead of being seen as transparent, the list has drawn heat and light," the commissioner told senators. A committee of senators has scrapped the most controversial elements of the government's bill to allow Mounties to form a union. The next step is a vote on the amended bill by the full Senate vote. For weeks RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson and other senior managers had told MPs and senators that the exclusions were necessary to maintain the authority granted to the commissioner under the RCMP Act. Many frontline Mounties lobbied for changesOnline, where Mounties have done most of their agitating for change to bill C-7, members of the RCMP were jubilant about Tuesday's proposed amendment on bargaining.

Source: CBC News June 14, 2016 20:03 UTC