It would improve it because of the speed at which I would be able to.... An event occurs, I look at it, and I can possibly impose a penalty or an obligation to obtain training. Now, I have to suspend and send to the RCMP. It takes a lot of resources to investigate, do reports and send. It takes time. Sometimes they're returned to me many, many years later.
For efficiency, and also for the public to have confidence in the work I'm doing, I find it very frustrating to not be able to talk about many of these files. There would be an education component to enable us to say, “You know what, this person has been late 10 times in the last 10 registrations. That's enough. Let's do a monetary penalty.” These are ways we could improve the regime.
My colleagues in the provinces have that power. I don't.
