The critical issue is that it doesn't serve the interests of the RCMP or the public to have the RCMP investigating the RCMP. We have heard it can create issues of morale within detachments to effectively pit one member against the other in that process. It's difficult to expect confidence in the process itself, either from a public perspective or as a complainant, when your complaint is given to an independent body that then hands it off to the RCMP.
It's true that under the current model, there is an opportunity that if a complainant isn't satisfied with the outcome, the CRCC can institute a process, and I think the same would be true under Bill C-20. The problem is that we then relegate the independent body almost to an appellate role and we certainly lose control of the timing issue, so we end up with situations like Mr. Joudrey's, when the matter was tied up in an initial investigation for two years.
That's where I think the interests of the public and the RCMP become one, inasmuch as no one is benefiting from the model that currently exists.