my hunting area,near Prince George. They always ask to see my driver's licence,and sometimes ask if I'm carrying any guns. At first I assumed that there had been a crime committed locally,and they were looking for a suspect,but one Constable said when I asked what was going on,"just routine,sir". Maybe it's "routine" in the old East Block,but it shouldn't be routine in an allegedly free Country. Policing in the rest of country is just as convoluted. Here in Ontario we have the OPP. We also have city county and municiple police forces. Some places use OPP as contract police others get police services without paying the extra bill to the province. Some relatively poor town are forced to pay for contract policing and other more prosperous towns are not. One town I will not name used to have its own very small police dept. They got rid of them sometime in the past, don't know when or why and are now in a position where the OPP keeps increasing the bill that they have to pay to the point they can't afford it any more. Not only can they not afford it, they don't get any real service for the money. I understand that at one point they told the province that they would hire a security guard service instead of the OPP because it would cost them a lot less and they would actually have boots on the ground. The system has grown and evolved over the years, but