Thank you all for being here. It's good news to have this bill in front of us. Between iterations of the bill, a number of changes have been made to reflect recommendations that came from the chairperson and from other organizations. Good work getting this to us.
I think the committee is prepared to work hard to get this done as quickly as we can.
I have a couple of questions.
One is about time frames. The RCMP Act has a one-year limitation period for discipline. If someone comes forward with a complaint to the new review commission and, at the end of the day, a disciplinary process is recommended, that whole one-year period may have ended, given that it can take a while before someone comes forward with a complaint.
How do you ensure that those recommendations that are coming from the commission will be reflected in action that's taken by the RCMP? By the time it's instigated, investigated and sent back, that one-year period mandated in the RCMP Act may have expired.