The RCMP is rife with structural problems. From the CBC’s article on this agency:

Davis said it’s hard not to see the Liberals’ move to create this agency as a comment on the RCMP.

“This is very much a reaction to the RCMP’s inability to do this job,” she said.

Some of that comes down to the RCMP’S structure, Davis said. On top of its federal policing obligations, the RCMP is also responsible for boots-on-the-ground policing across the country, which has drained its resources over the last decades.

A 2023 report from the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians called on Ottawa to create a stand-alone federal policing organization. It found the RCMP’s sprawling mandate is undermining its investigations into files such as national security and financial crime.