Thank you, Chair. My turn has come up sooner than I thought.
Minister, I think I'll direct this one to you.
I've been made aware of a few older studies from 2010 to 2015 on body-worn cameras. I had a group from my riding meet with your staff last week and they had some more recent data, in particular a 2019 study from the Metro DC police. It's the largest scale randomized study of body-worn cameras to date. The conclusion was that body-worn cameras “have very small and statistically insignificant effects on police use of force in civilian complaints”.
I know there's a pilot project happening right now in Iqaluit. I'm concerned that we could be spending money on something that could be better spent on actually transforming policing, things like enhancing indigenous policing. Here I'm thinking of the pilots like the one in Toronto at Native Family and Child Services—which is based on the one at Kwanlin Dün—to deal with urban indigenous policing issues, or mental health support.
Are we treating Iqaluit as a pilot and actually looking at the data, or have we made a commitment to body cameras for all of the RCMP?