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To assert Canadian control over the people included in their purchase of Western Canada. The NWMP was based on the Paramilitary Royal Irish Constabulary because of the similar responsibility, which was to control a hostile and sometimes violent colonised people. The NWMP is today's RCMP.

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The North West Mounted Police were important to Canada to gaurd the land and to check for any weapons and secret invaders whom boarded the ship

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