Government Operations committee  To clarify for you specifically, the new section 31.1 of the bill only relates to disability payments under the pension act. So adding a reference there to cadets, if we could, wouldn't solve the problem. It's only clarifying who's eligible for very specific disability benefits.

Government Operations committee  Covering them under the pension, no.

Government Operations committee  First of all, it's more of an employment issue than a pension issue. Not hiring cadets as employees of the RCMP until they graduate was an RCMP decision taken in 1994. If the RCMP senior management decides to hire them as employees from the time they enter the training academy, t