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Public Safety committee  I think the matter hit the media. My first phone call would have been on July 2 or 3, I would say. The matter hit the media on July 29, and shortly after it hit the media, that's when the workplace assessment was announced. You said July 30. That's probably right.

February 8th, 2011Committee meeting

D/Commr Raf Souccar

Public Safety committee  The board of management certainly is separate and distinct from a civilian oversight. And it could probably be explained much better by others whose business it is to deal with these matters. My responsibilities, as I said, were federal policing, federal international policing.

February 8th, 2011Committee meeting

D/Commr Raf Souccar

Public Safety committee  I believe, Mr. Holland, that this matter could have been dealt with more swiftly and in a much cleaner way had there been a board of management in place. It would have avoided the question that was asked earlier about complaining to government. That's where that board of management would be a conduit, a body between government and the RCMP, and again, this would be perhaps an administrative matter the board of management could then be involved with.

February 8th, 2011Committee meeting

D/Commr Raf Souccar

Public Safety committee  There was action taken after the matter hit the media.

February 8th, 2011Committee meeting

D/Commr Raf Souccar

Public Safety committee  Can you help me with this one?

February 8th, 2011Committee meeting

D/Commr Raf Souccar

Public Safety committee  I think the major challenges are the ones that I set out in my opening comments: a potential board of management; some autonomy for the RCMP to be able to perform its complex policing duties in a more nimble, more flexible way; the ability to deal with problem employees, grievances, discipline matters, so dealing with the RCMP Act; and oversight, transparency, and accountability to the public, which I think will be first and foremost in terms of gaining the public's confidence and being able to admit when an error was made, explaining how it will be dealt with, and showing results at the end of the day.

February 8th, 2011Committee meeting

D/Commr Raf Souccar

Public Safety committee  First of all, that is correct; they hired Reid Morden to complete a workplace assessment. That would have started in early August. I can probably get you the exact date, if you wish, but it started early August.

February 8th, 2011Committee meeting

D/Commr Raf Souccar

Public Safety committee  Those were changes that were on their way to being implemented quite some time prior to the arrival of our then new commissioner in 2007. They were then put into place after his arrival, but the process had started prior to his arrival. The changes are very significant, absolutely significant.

February 8th, 2011Committee meeting

D/Commr Raf Souccar

February 8th, 2011Committee meeting

D/Commr Raf Souccar

Public Safety committee  I just want to make sure that there was no undertaking on my behalf--or if there was, if you could let me know, please, Mr. Chair--on the options with respect to regionalizations. I don't have these options in my possession. I don't have an office at the RCMP right now, so if this is an undertaking, perhaps a direct request can be made by Ms.

February 8th, 2011Committee meeting

D/Commr Raf Souccar

Public Safety committee  The RCMP Act has the Minister of Public Safety overseeing the Commissioner of the RCMP. The Commissioner of the RCMP responds to the Minister of Public Safety under the umbrella of public safety along with the Canada Border Services Agency, Correctional Services, and CSIS. In terms of the selection process and whether it should be independent, I hope and I expect that when a selection board is put together the individuals on the selection board are looking for the most meritorious candidate--the candidate with the leadership necessary to lead a very complex organization--and not looking at whether or not that individual is going to be a lap dog, if you will, for anyone, and that they will be doing what is required to look after the best interests of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and serve the public in an open, transparent, and accountable way.

February 8th, 2011Committee meeting

D/Commr Raf Souccar

Public Safety committee  Well, we have.... And Mike perhaps can refresh.... I'll need some help on this one, but we have instituted service day, so that's been put in place, and I believe that has gone a long way in retention issues. We've instituted cadet day, which helped us with our recruiting. We've instituted a backup policy that compensates members for being on call.

February 8th, 2011Committee meeting

D/Commr Raf Souccar

Public Safety committee  I do not have them, but—

February 8th, 2011Committee meeting

D/Commr Raf Souccar

Public Safety committee  I really don't know why it would have taken that long.

February 8th, 2011Committee meeting

D/Commr Raf Souccar

Public Safety committee  I am not sure which report by Mr. Sweeney you mean.

February 8th, 2011Committee meeting

D/Commr Raf Souccar