Thank you, Chair.
Minister, you referred to the RCMP as an “iconic” force. Indeed, it is. It's over 150 years old. It was a colonial force, in fact, a tool of colonialism in Canada, and it's also a paramilitary force with the training that goes with that.
Do you think it's time for that to be changed, that we not have what's been described to our committee as a process that strips down the individual and builds them back up again in the mould of the RCMP? Isn't that something that should be tossed away with the colonial attitude that was present at the time of the incorporation of the force, and we should turn to a police service model? Would the minister agree with that?