Public Safety committee  He was selected as the RCMP commissioner, and the decisions made within the organization are ultimately his. You are asking me whether the commissioner's decisions were partisan. That is for him to say; I cannot speak for him.

Public Safety committee  I think it is up to the government to decide whether the gun registry should be scrapped or not. The RCMP's role was simply to show the advantages and disadvantages of the gun registry. I believe the person in charge at the time, Chief Superintendent Marty Cheliak, presented the

Public Safety committee  No, he was transferred to language training.

Public Safety committee  I know the position Marty Cheliak held was a bilingual one requiring the person in it to be bilingual. I also know that Marty Cheliak is not bilingual.

Public Safety committee  That program is now under the direction of Deputy Commissioner Tim Killam, so he may know more than I do. I have no other information on that. I had such a large area of responsibility that I had little time to worry about anything else.

Public Safety committee  Well, I wouldn't say that change was not taking place in the RCMP. Change was taking place in the RCMP, and in fact many of Mr. Brown's 49 recommendations have been dealt with. The issue was the speed at which change was taking place. There was a bit of resistance to taking ris

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much for your question. No, no one threatened me with respect to my appearing before the committee. However, when the RCMP receives an invitation to appear, the commissioner decides who will go before the committee. The commissioner decided, as he clearly stated d

Public Safety committee  The difficulty in this instance was that the person being complained against was the Commissioner of the RCMP--the number one in the organization. Ideally you work things out inside the organization. You lock the doors, you sit down, you look each other in the eye and you deal wi

Public Safety committee  Things got worse by the number of individuals, including senior managers, who would walk into my office to complain, some in tears. I've heard comments made about intimidation. Bill Elliott did not intimidate--at least the police officers in the RCMP--but the abuse was there, the

Public Safety committee  I'm not sure I follow your question. If things would have changed--what things?

Public Safety committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair, honourable members of the committee. It is a pleasure to be here this morning. I'd like to thank you very much for inviting us here today to answer your questions and to set the record straight to the extent possible. Let me start by saying that I'm

Afghanistan committee  It is an International Police Coordination Board committee headed by EUPOL. Mr. Vittrup heads it. EUPOL is ultimately responsible as head of the training that's being provided in Afghanistan. All the contributing countries plug into it, so a strategy can be put in place in terms

Afghanistan committee  Absolutely, they should and they do. This is not a committee that throws darts at a board to determine what should and shouldn't be done. Information, intelligence--all the countries that are part of this committee have something to contribute. Together this is collected and a ra

Afghanistan committee  We've taken part in discussions with respect to border management, trying to facilitate the border management between both countries and to determine what, if any, training can be provided to them to set up a more secure border.

Afghanistan committee  I'll start, and I think Paul will have more to add. At this point, with 30 police officers in Afghanistan, 14 out of the 30 are non-RCMP and 16 are RCMP. Through the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, we've gone a long way in communicating to them our involvement in Afgha