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Empty saddles: the RCMP’s recruitment crisis is threatening the celebrated Musical Ride

It’s an image as Canadian as anything on a coin — Mounties in their red serge dress uniforms, putting their horses through the complex paces of the renowned Musical Ride.

But after more than a century of entertaining summer crowds from coast to coast, the RCMP’s iconic Musical Ride is in trouble, plagued by low morale and staffing woes that threaten the program’s future, according to an internal audit conducted by the RCMP.

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