Public Safety committee  Thank you. I guess I could have done this through video conference and it would have been more true to form, but that's all right. I just have a few short comments to make, an opening statement of six minutes and 32 seconds, by my watch last night. Hopefully that will prepare som

Public Safety committee  If you look at the StatsCan report, it's $12 billion a year that we spend on policing in total.

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  Yes, I've seen that.

Public Safety committee  It's a great question. I think in the future we're going to look at a bunch of different tools. They're doing the simulations at Depot and at a couple of other places. Depot certainly leads the country in that area, especially the firearms training around skills acquisition. The

Public Safety committee  I know there's capacity at Depot to do more training. The Regina police are right there, and the Saskatchewan Police College is right there, and they take advantage from time to time of that capacity. I think the model of shipping people around the country to train them is passé

Public Safety committee  It's part of that billion dollars that nobody is looking at.

Public Safety committee  Thank you for that. We're proud of the fact that, nine or ten years on, we are sustainable and that we haven't raised our prices since we started. What we depend on is low-cost, high-volume. So over time if you look at our growth curve, it started out very low, as technology trad

Public Safety committee  It's very difficult. We've had a couple of research projects where we've found independent third parties to come in and look at our courses and evaluate them, and we can learn from that. One was funded by the Canadian Police Research Council, which is now part of National Defence

Public Safety committee  There are issues around bandwidth. We don't like to design our courses to the lowest common denominator so that they work everywhere, but for somebody with high-speed Internet, they're just not taking advantage of all the media richness that can be available. So we kind of play w

Public Safety committee  There's a whole bunch there, but I'll try my best. No surprise to anybody here, policing in this country is seen by most people to be a provincial jurisdiction. There are police acts in each of the provinces across the country, with varying degrees of police training prescribed

Public Safety committee  It's a great question, and I think one of the weaknesses in our current model is that there is no one place for that. Actually the police community is very good at finding out themselves who's doing something interesting and going off and seeing if it would apply in their local j

Public Safety committee  Wow, that's a tough question.

Public Safety committee  It's 10% to 30%.

Public Safety committee  Remember, what I'm talking about is not dollars, because people don't have a billion dollars in their training budgets. They have some of that in their salary budgets, if you will. What you're doing is freeing up that much in terms of resources to do other things with, but if you