I believe that one point has not yet been developed. Most police officers and other police services who join the ranks of the RCMP don't go to the academy.
They don't have to go back to Regina for six months. They don't. They're taken at par. They don't go back and retrain in the police academy as being non-cadets.
That's not what we're talking about here. These people are the ones who are being right now compared in Bill C-18. Our membership has to go directly through training for those six months.
To me, I do believe, with all due respect, Monsieur Lee, that when we're talking about not an amendment to the RCMP Act, if you look at the definition of membre de la Gendarmerie , which is in Bill C-18, that's what we're addressing here.
Anyway, it's just so that you comprehend that if you have police from another police force who already have some police service, then those people are taken at par.