Thank you for your question. This is a major concern for our organization as well. At the beginning, when we looked into the issue, we naively thought that a short, easy training session of about one week would be enough. But we worked with the Quebec Police Institute in Nicolet and the training centre for departmental employees who use firearms, the DHS in the United States. We acquired the expertise we needed to set up a course. The course will contain the components found in courses for police officers. We went over the structure with the RCMP to be sure that nothing was missing. The course will last three weeks. It will include these components as well as others on ethics, legal aspects and the consequences of using firearms.
On June 7th, 2006. See this statement in context.