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Public Safety committee  You're talking specifically of Lethbridge College?

May 7th, 2013Committee meeting

Sandy Sweet

Public Safety committee  Yes. Actually Andy McGrogan is the new chair of our board as of last Thursday—

May 7th, 2013Committee meeting

Sandy Sweet

Public Safety committee  —so you can pat him on the back for that, yes. There are 16 police academies across the country and we work with each one of those to varying degrees. JIBC would use probably five or six of our courses as part of their cadet training program. Similarly, the Atlantic Police Acade

May 7th, 2013Committee meeting

Sandy Sweet

Public Safety committee  It's interesting. The two biggest issues we're dealing with right now are around social media. It goes both ways: how do police services use social media to their advantage, and how do they intercept or understand what bad people are doing when they're using social media? And tha

May 7th, 2013Committee meeting

Sandy Sweet

Public Safety committee  I won't bore you with our design and development process, but it's based on sound adult learning principles. There's self-testing and testing that occurs throughout the modules. All the courses are broken up into modules. Every course has an exam. At a minimum you know that perso

May 7th, 2013Committee meeting

Sandy Sweet

Public Safety committee  Could you please repeat the question?

May 7th, 2013Committee meeting

Sandy Sweet

Public Safety committee  No. Right now of the 100 courses we have, I think 40 or 45 are available in French. Anything that we have built with the federal government, obviously, has to be available in both official languages. We have a relationship with ENPQ, École nationale de police, and they actually

May 7th, 2013Committee meeting

Sandy Sweet

Public Safety committee  We provide end-user support en français. So if you're a police officer in Laval and you have an issue, if you phone our help desk you will get support en français. It has not been a huge priority for us to move as quickly as we can or maybe should have in the province of Quebec,

May 7th, 2013Committee meeting

Sandy Sweet

Public Safety committee  Yes, and again, the model is that we rely on the police community to identify new topics and we ask them, can you build something on this? Diversity is huge. So we have a series of courses on diversity, from aboriginal awareness to items of religious significance.Then it's buildi

May 7th, 2013Committee meeting

Sandy Sweet

Public Safety committee  We're funded by revenues. We had funding. I live in Prince Edward Island. Our head office is in Charlottetown. We started up with funding in 2003 that came from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, from Holland College in Prince Edward Island, as well as the National Researc

May 7th, 2013Committee meeting

Sandy Sweet

Public Safety committee  It's not for deficit.

May 7th, 2013Committee meeting

Sandy Sweet

Public Safety committee  Yes. We have a subset of our catalogue that's available for police foundation students. As an aside, we've also just recently launched a separate catalogue of courses in private security, the Private Security Training Network, because we had private security people coming to us

May 7th, 2013Committee meeting

Sandy Sweet

Public Safety committee  Thank you for that question. I'm sorry, my French is not good enough—

May 7th, 2013Committee meeting

Sandy Sweet

Public Safety committee  —to respond en français. The content is a key part of our model. As I explained earlier, I don't have one subject-matter expert on staff. So we rely on the Canadian police community to supply the content and the subject-matter expert that our techies deal with to create the onli

May 7th, 2013Committee meeting

Sandy Sweet

Public Safety committee  Wow, that's a tough question.

May 7th, 2013Committee meeting

Sandy Sweet