Public Safety committee  Mr. Chair--

Public Safety committee  But on the numbers, I think it's important that I clarify that these were the Northgate report numbers. We carried out a survey of strictly the border, the land border crossings. We had a 91% response; 2,200 officers responded. So we drew from the border itself, and 88% said th

Public Safety committee  The legal authority?

Public Safety committee  No, the legal authority for pursuit exists under the act, under subsection 99.1(1).

Public Safety committee  Absolutely. It is strictly based on policy. And that is what should occur. There's confusion going on--which is not productive--between port running and the ability to protect oneself. The port running solution is and should be the ability to pursue. That's what we are talking

Public Safety committee  The understanding I have is that the average, specific to sidearm training for police officers, equates to roughly 40 hours, or two weeks. The CBSA is contemplating three weeks in order to add this customized element to it. Now, I don't pretend to be an expert by any definition,

Public Safety committee  Well, you have to have lockup and lockers. Some of those offices close in the middle of the night; you don't want them broken into, and then the firearms—

Public Safety committee  Our position is very clear and very unambiguous: we do not support two levels, and will not be going to the table prepared to negotiate two levels. We've always worked out of one national job description, which means you can be called upon to carry out any of the duties in the j

Public Safety committee  The indication we're getting from CBSA is that they don't. Part of the cost of the $781 million is the cost of the lockup and all of the procedures that go with it, as well as overtime and travel costs. A lot of people work from one office and are deployed to some of the other sm

Public Safety committee  When you are so entrenched in a position, as has been the case with the senior bureaucracy and with the people who were in government at the time, it's hard to believe there is a genuine shift in commitment. And when the same people now get mandated to actually implement this typ

Public Safety committee  It's insulting to our members and insulting to individuals such as Michel, because his credibility and objectivity are in question; I guess he's just doing this to assist us in getting a raise. But beyond that, I guess what you're referring to is that when the comments about the

Public Safety committee  If it can help you in some way, Mr. Ménard, the unaltered pages and the final report are reproduced in the Senate committee report. The two versions are appended to the Senate committee report released last year. I'd be happy to send it to you.

Public Safety committee  Of course.

Public Safety committee  Michel provided you with an overview. We asked several organizations, including the Police Association and a number of other law enforcement agencies which we felt were qualified to do a study of this nature. We ended up with a short list of four firms, which we then approached.

Public Safety committee  Absolutely, Mr. Ménard. It was important to inform them, because they were likely to encounter a lack of cooperation on the part of the employer. Furthermore, they needed to know why we wanted our own study, namely because we had discovered that the study ordered by the governme