I'm not really sure why you have to turn this into party mud-slinging politics. I don't really care what the NDP or the Libs would do. I care about what they should do. That's because I'm a fiscal conservative.
Party mud slinging politics? What was the title of this thread again? Oh that's right;
"Typical opposition BS".
Now on to the fiscal conservative part of your answer.
Cheaping out on security in direct refusal to accept the recommendations of the specialists you employ to provide you with the best information and suggestions for your security abroad would in my mind be wasting a resource you've paid for ergo; taxpayer money being thrown down the crapper.
Can you imagine for one minute the alternative were a tragedy to take place?
Think of the cost of replacing the Prime Minister; the cost of the investigative exercise or Royal Commission to determine who screwed up when the RCMP's recommendations were ignored. Think of the costs of the State funeral, the memorial monument to our first Prime Minister killed while performing his official duties.
The resultant exercise in the RCMP pointing their fingers at the opposition party and invoking the wrath of god on their heads for causing the death of the Prime Minister would equate to them never being second guessed and writing their own cheques for the foreseeable future and it wouldn't just be armoured cars going overseas we'd be faced with but whole armed regiments accompanying our leaders to provide security in the future.