I was really pleasantly surprised in preparing for this meeting and doing some research in that area.
These are folks who are already well-trained and seasoned police officers, with two weeks of dedicated training in this discipline, twelve months in the field doing this, and then another three weeks, and continual tactical training.
I was really impressed that we've stepped up our game, given the demands and the complexity of the demands that we've faced over the last 10, 15 years, quite frankly, since I've been operational in this regard.
As far as the level of training is concerned that other police forces in Canada have or would engage in, I know we train folks from other police forces in Canada within our program as part of the integration. We have done that; we do that.
Internationally, we compare our training with other nations that have similar legislation, and our training is world class at this point.
If I can take a minute, and I think this is important for the committee to hear, I did talk to several practitioners who are all well informed about Bill C-51. From my perspective as a representative, I asked the natural question: is there anything more that you could have asked for in BillC-51, stuff that's not there? And quite frankly, they were uniformly pleased in their understanding of the legislation, and there was no more that they would have asked for.