There is possibly no single body worse suited to deciding who is and is not a journalist than the RCMP. I would trust nine strangers at a bar to know what a journalist does, and why, before I trusted the RCMP with its long track record of interfering with us.
Hammer, nail.
I have one friend who is a doctor and he often reminded me that if I don’t need to go to a hospital … don’t
One of the reasons he said this was to tell me that if anyone ever asks a surgeon how to solve a medical problem … they’d recommend surgery
and like your comment suggests … if you ask the police to solve a problem, they’ll arrest people first and probably shoot or beat people in order to solve a problem.