Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and thanks to both the witnesses for appearing today.
I'm going to focus most of my time on Mr. Kennedy, because I think he is the person who possibly has the most experience of anyone in dealing with police complaints, in contrast to the current occupant of the position who appears to have been appointed on a temporary and part-time kind of caretaker basis by the government. I really value what you have to say about your experience.
We had officials here a week ago. We were talking about the hierarchy of investigations they proposed in the bill, which seems to push investigations down to the lowest level, in other words, down to provincial investigatory bodies or other police forces. When I specifically asked Mr. Potter from Public Safety whether this would include the federal responsibilities for the RCMP, he answered that it would. For things like national security and organized crime, he said the legislation would envision that perhaps the British Columbia Independent Investigation Office would investigate complaints in those areas. Do you have any comments on that? I was quite surprised by that answer.