Thank you for the invitation.
I was happy to receive this invitation because I think this report is very important. It's a devastating report, I think, for a major institution of our country. Everybody wants the RCMP to be what we thought it would be, or that it should be, and this is more a call for reform than anything else.
When I began to work on this project, I knew there had been previous studies that had dealt directly with the problem—