Public Accounts committee  I'll start, and maybe Dan can add to this. Even in the course of the audit, there were some sensitivities identified around how we are able to extract and make judgments on the back of what is the very personal and private information contained in some of these medical files. T

Public Accounts committee  Yes, I do.

Public Accounts committee  Yes.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for that, but it does reflect my whole time.

Public Accounts committee  This is my strategy, and we put this strategy in place in 2014. That was me, so it kind of does.

Public Accounts committee  But you talked about outcomes, sir.

Public Accounts committee  Okay. Well, we're three years into the plan, and the place isn't sinking and nothing's on fire. It's valuable criticism. It's good, helpful criticism. I accept it as that, and we're working on it. We've accepted those things. We're going to implement them. We're not going to gi

Public Accounts committee  I don't want credit; I want dignity. I want some dignity.

Public Accounts committee  I think it goes back to the Auditor General's report and the recommendations, and in most cases the findings are accurate. Had we done that and had a more structured, clinical strategy and—as it's referred to—a business case with sufficient funding and more milestones.... We did

Public Accounts committee  Sure. I think the recommendations, as they were produced, would have been produced in any case, and likely there would have been recommendations in respect of our other pillars as well. My defensiveness—and I hate to use that word, because I've resisted being labelled “defensi

Public Accounts committee  Well, first of all, I think that's accurate. There are geographic disadvantages to some locations where our folks are, because there are just no services there. That falls to the organization, and it also falls to the second part of my answer, which is the challenge of recognizin

Public Accounts committee  It can be.

Public Accounts committee  One of the things I can add is that every week, on Wednesday, I have all the COs of the country on a big video screen with all the department heads in Ottawa, and we go across the business of the nation, as far as the RCMP is concerned. Every commanding officer who reports on a

Public Accounts committee  That's correct.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for your questions. The challenge of implementing mental health strategy performance measures is something all organizations face, not just in the government, but also countrywide. It's easy to identify how many members of the RCMP are affected and have submitted claim