I researched that, because I knew it was possibly going to be a question.
The RCMP Act has provisions similar to those of the National Defence Act, which the commissioner.... The basic criterion is to be a Canadian citizen, but in the case where there are an insufficient number of Canadians to fulfill those roles, non-Canadians could.
Our HR people said we have not run into a situation yet whereby we haven't had a sufficient number of Canadians. So to this point, I'm not aware of anybody in recent history being appointed who was not Canadian.