The town of Gravelbourg was forced to surrender the bilingual position in their police force due to the RCMP shortage.

Around 20% of the citizens in Gravelbourg are francophone, so the mayor and city council wants RCMP and officers who were bilingual, believing it could benefit and serve their community better and be in the interest of minority language rights.

They had already moved positions from "priority one", where officers are specified to be bilingual, to "priority two", which means any officer can enter the job but must be willing learn french while serving in the area, preferably within two years.

Gravelbourg used had the five paid positions set up as four "priority one" officers, only one "priority two" officer and one position for a public servant, such as a receptionist. They then made the switch to four "priority two" positions to one "priority one" position and the public servant.

Now, they surrendered their last bilingual position in town due to the shortage of officers.

Currently, the town has three serving officers, and one on maternity leave and are now filling the fifth regular position with a priority two officer.