Thank you, Chair.
Justice Bastarache, I just cannot thank you and the team that worked with you enough for putting this report together. I had trouble reading it. I couldn't read it all in one night because it upset me so much. I can't imagine what you folks went through doing the interviews and preparing for it.
The committee has heard me use this comparison before, but a couple of years ago I read a report on the Edmonton institute, Edmonton Max, about the issues they were having there with sexual harassment, and they compared it to the 1950s movie The Blob: many of the people who become part of it are good people but helpless against its power. How do you get rid of something so all-consuming? As I read your report, I couldn't help but think exactly the same thing.
You've made all these recommendations. Do you think the RCMP has the ability to implement those recommendations? The minister has come out publicly and has condemned what has happened, and I know that he wants to see things change, but is the RCMP able to do this and fix what's going on there?