Public Safety committee  Maybe I can start by talking about the context, and I think you've rightly identified how it's changing. It's changing in terms of an increase in the complexity of the law enforcement environment, the degree to which many of the major criminal challenges we're facing involve an

Public Safety committee  With respect to the contract policing negotiations, there is a very detailed contract in place with contract policing jurisdictions, and this is one in a long line of those. Contract policing has been in place in Canada for over a century now and has been governed by contractual

Public Safety committee  I could speak to the resource limits question and the accountability questions. Maybe the most useful lens to put on this would be that we're currently conducting what will be the largest contract in Canadian history, which is the contract policing negotiations with the provinces

Public Safety committee  Yes. The accountability environment is changing as well. One of the key interests of the provinces in this new contract policing environment is a number of the resources that were expended. For example, on the accommodations function of the RCMP, they want greater oversight ove

Public Safety committee  Bill Baker is the individual from Public Safety who is on the committee. Bill is in Iqaluit right now with the other deputy ministers of public safety and justice. The federal-provincial meeting is on right now. Bill has extensive experience as a senior public servant in hiring

Public Safety committee  Maybe I could give an example on the complex accountability side. Many in Ottawa see the federal face of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. But it is not just a national police service; it is also a police service that is present on hundreds of aboriginal reserves in Canada, whe