Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to our witnesses today.
Ms. Séguin, we've talked a lot about legislative means that we can employ when a behaviour has occurred, and you've made some suggestions around how the act could or should deal with behaviour that has occurred. A significant part in the change in the culture starts right away with the training. In the RCMP it begins with a group of people going to the RCMP academy in Regina. They have an opportunity with one centre, which I think is a positive idea, where all the recruits go, get training, and move out from there.
Let me point something out and then I'll give you an opportunity to comment on whether or not you see this as a positive step in the legislation. I'd like to look at some of the things in the legislation that appear to me, as a former member of the RCMP, to be moving in the right direction.
Proposed section 20.2 would allow the commissioner to determine the learning, training and development requirements of members and fix the terms on which the learning, training and development may be carried out.
I see that as being translated in a framework fashion to the academy itself, to the recruitment structure, and the training structure. Could you comment on whether you see that as a positive remark in the legislation? What recommendations would you have in terms of guiding philosophies around training to start the preventive measures that are needed in the RCMP?