Feds step in as B.C. Mounties allege beard discrimination during COVID-19 pandemic

A day after a retired police chief and Canada's advocacy group for Sikh citizens revealed bearded RCMP officers in B.C. had been pulled from their regular duties, the country's public safety minister safety minister has stepped in. Bill Blair's office tells CTV News he expects to see changes to the situation, which has seen Sikh and Muslim Mounties reassigned, often to desk duties and other undesirable positions, because the force says they haven't been able to find approved masks that would acc