This is the second or third time of leaving it in the committee's hands. The second or third time that I go into the final comments trying to summarize everything up and all of a sudden hands start shooting up and they want to come forward. I'm probably not going to today, but I do just want to finish this up by saying this committee takes very seriously the jobs that it's called to do. Sometimes it deals with straight data. Sometimes it deals with delivery of programs, money, accountability, transparency, cost saving.
Today we're dealing with lives typically and management practices. These have real consequences. For example, in the case that we're looking at today, I'm not sure if it was an Auditor General's report or an internal review that you did, but in 2011, the RCMP officers, in an analysis, recognized that they did not have the firearms they needed for proper safety and for delivery of public safety. That was in 2011. There were three deaths in 2014, and when the mandated review took place in December of that very same year, they found out that a lot of the reason was that the Moncton officers did not have the necessary body armour. Then later the court finds that the RCMP is guilty of not providing adequate equipment, including maybe the carbines. That's in 2019. Now the Auditor General says that we still don't have it where we would like to see it. That's why this committee is here.
This committee is here to make certain that proper process is followed. That's why Mr. Christopherson is drilling in on 13%. It could be 30%; it could be 3%. The Auditor General has been clear. It is process followed. Are the best management practices followed? That's what we care about.
Today we ask ourselves, should we believe that this time the RCMP brass will, in effect, heed the Auditor General's recommendation? We see in the action plan that they have, and indeed I see some timelines of April 2019. We've already met those, so we're encouraged by that. Again, we follow up on this and we want to be certain when we look at this next time that we have bettered our past numbers, and it's because of the Auditor General's report, it's because of the public accounts report, it's because of the RCMP brass taking this very seriously and following through.