Public Accounts committee  Well, I think Madam Heafey can obviously articulate for herself what motivated her to say that. I have known Mr. Elliott in a professional capacity, and I don't expect him to be other than a professional in terms of the discharge of his duties. My job with the review agency is

Public Accounts committee  I am familiar with the recommendations. I appeared before Justice O'Connor myself and made suggestions, and with a colleague I actually drafted what I thought was an appropriate legislative model, which I shared with Justice O'Connor before he published his document. The two larg

Public Safety committee  Well, there's a difference between us and judges, and I say this as a former prosecutor. The rules are very tight if you want to do a criminal prosecution. There are rules of evidence, there's admissibility, and there's proof beyond a reasonable doubt. If our focus is remedial, w

Public Safety committee  No.

Public Safety committee  We could, because an officer would be running the program. They would assign responsibility for that, and we'd have to know what facts there were and whether or not the member considered those facts—they may or may not have—and if they did, whether or not they exercised their dec

Public Safety committee  I have no personal knowledge of facts. It's more the case of somebody wanting to get into the program and not getting in, or some individual who was put out of the program as opposed to a third party complaining about that. I don't believe so. I could find out.

Public Safety committee  To my knowledge, we're doing nothing vis-à-vis the witness protection program. I'm endeavouring at this stage to raise the profile of the commission itself so people know it's there and can generally hear complaints we can conduct on their behalf. Because we are a small commissio

Public Safety committee  Oh yes.

Public Safety committee  Because if you're going to have civilian oversight of policing, and we've given police extraordinary powers, then I think there is a quid pro quo in terms of accountability for those powers. Historically, as members of society, we enforced public safety. Then we moved to institu

Public Safety committee  And that will not be given way to unless there is a statutory requirement for them to do so. So what you have to do is provide a statutory vehicle that says you have to provide that, and then conversely, you have to put safeguards in place that say our access does not mean publ

Public Safety committee  I think I answered all the questions that were asked of me there.

Public Safety committee  I don't have that number. I can get it for you.

Public Safety committee  Currently under the legislation anyone can complain, including a third party. So if the family wanted to complain about the program or activities, they could do so.

Public Safety committee  Yes. The legislation says any person can complain. It doesn't require that they be particularly involved in some things. That will raise the issue, though, of what we can access, depending on what the complaint was and what we could get to respond to it.

Public Safety committee  We'd have to look at whether or not the complaint dealt with the conduct of a member, because that's how the statute is currently crafted. Anyone in the country can complain. It has to be about the conduct of a member. So what was the conduct in question? We'd have to tie in that