Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Minister, thank you for being here, and thank you to all of the other witnesses.
I'm going to focus my questions on upstream, downstream and diversity inclusion generally. I'd like to start off with Commissioner Lucki.
We heard in previous testimony from Assistant Professor Robert Henry, who is with the Department of Indigenous Studies at the University of Saskatchewan, that “hiring more indigenous officers without changing the culture of policing itself does not actually make a bit of difference”.
For the RCMP, I'm sure you're tuned in to the question of indigeneity, of being culturally sensitive to indigenous people, and I'd like to just hear from you to what extent the RCMP is focused on the issue of indigenous people and to what extent the force is culturally sensitive.