Status of Women committee  I'd just like to finish off on your comments about accountability. As part of the RCMP, my project is ultimately responsible and accountable to the RCMP, but we're also accountable to the family members of the victims, and that's who we work for.

Status of Women committee  The operating budget, the investigational operating budget, for the project for this fiscal year is $6 million. That may be the reference to the $6.3 million. But it's actually $6 million. The money pays for salary dollars for the regular members of the RCMP and the support staff and for any investigational expenses that may be incurred during the year.

Status of Women committee  How much time did you say I have, Madam Chair?

Status of Women committee  I'm sorry. I missed the last part of your question.

Status of Women committee  First of all, I think I heard two questions there. The first one was that we haven't achieved any significant results.... I would disagree with that. We haven't been successful in charging anybody in any of the offences, but we have advanced the investigations. We have collected significant numbers in DNA.

Status of Women committee  When our project was initially created, the mandate was to review all of the investigational files: to identify the files, review the files, and develop investigational strategies. When we began the process of identifying which files we felt we had to bring within the project, we had to create a criterion and, I would suggest, a strict guideline or strict rules as to what files we could look at.

Status of Women committee  Good afternoon, Madam Chair and members of the committee. I would like to thank you for inviting the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to respond to your questions today. I am Staff Sergeant Bruce Hulan, the team commander of Project E-PANA, the investigation of murdered and missing women along northern British Columbia's Highway 16, commonly referred to in the media as the “Highway of Tears”.