Public Safety committee  Yes, we do have cases where they talk about “unknown members”, and we'll work with the RCMP. They would do it in the first instance because they have to respond in the first instance. They would identify who the people were. Yes, we've had that. We've gone back and identified who

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  If you're doing a statistical analysis, I think you're right. Clearly some have more serious allegations, and we have to look to see if the allegations are serious or not. It could be on whether or not you've improperly disclosed information about the individual. But the vast maj

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  I agree with you on that point. The issue I put to you—and it's been part of my concern since my appointment as chair—is what is the profile of the commission? Who knows about it? Who knows what their rights are? We've been having outreach to various marginalized communities, whe

Public Safety committee  I can tell you that since my appointment there has been a 20% increase in requests for review. There's been an overall increase in complaints. That doesn't include your area, which is still a small one. I'm just saying there's a correlation between raising awareness and people us

Public Safety committee  If you look at the list of powers I pointed out here, the challenge if you have a statute that doesn't have statutory prohibitions in terms of disclosure of information, disclosing directly or indirectly the identity of people in the program...clearly there is a very high public

Public Safety committee  It was two years ago. I have the case here; it's in English and in French. It's the Federal Court of Appeal. It was heard in May 2005, with judgment in June 2005. I brought along English and French versions. They are published reports in the Canadian Journal of Administrative Law

Public Safety committee  It's just the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Public Complaints Commission v. Attorney General. The identity of the individual obviously is not disclosed.

Public Safety committee  That is correct.

Public Safety committee  Just to make two points, I think the split in the numbers is 700 and 300, but to clarify, we wouldn't only be dealing with the RCMP. You are right in terms of that being where we have everything, but there may be people from the other 300 who are introduced into the program, and

Public Safety committee  That is correct.

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  I think we've just had two since my appointment. I was appointed in October 2005, so if you do the math—

Public Safety committee  Yes.