“The site where Riel was hanged is still today used as the RCMP training academy” https://thenewinquiry.com/a-condensed-history-of-canadas-colonial-cops/
This is precisely the discourse-founding violence that Girard describes in The Scapegoat (1986) https://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Scapegoat.html?id=7-PYAAAAMAAJ