It's my understanding that the RCMP is going to be training the CBSA trainers, and then the trainers are going to go on to train the individual officers ultimately. The question I have then is this. The RCMP is doing a model of training that is not used by any other police agency in Canada. For most of the agencies in Canada, when they acquired their firearms, their trainers were trained by the manufacturers. For example, companies like Glock, Smith & Wesson, SiGARMS all run fairly significant training academies. They are well respected.
If I were going to buy 5,000 handguns from a company, why would I not want my trainers trained at their academy? I don't understand why we are using the relatively rare resources of the RCMP when there are better models for training and certainly much cheaper models for training.