Thank you.
I'll take the first question first.
Legislatively, there are two things that would have to change. Number one would be the Public Service Superannuation Act. Border officers would have to be added as an occupational group, as exists for all other occupational groups, including corrections officers. That would have to change. The associated regulations would have to change accordingly as well.
The second piece of legislation would be the Income Tax Act regulations. There, we would have to start including FB members in the definition of “public safety occupations”. Those two things would go a long way, and they would solidify and codify that we are indeed public safety officers.
Among the things that would have to change in the proposed Bill C-20 to bring about real cultural change—which, for CIU, would be the goal—is an ability for CBSA officers to use the process as well to bring forward incidents and things they know to bring about that kind of change, and for those to be investigated as well through the process.
We work in the milieu all day. We are likely to see a lot more than a traveller who's coming through and whose interaction with the CBSA might be for 10 seconds. Right now, the way it's currently defined, that door is shut to us. Again, a way to ensure that it is followed up on....
Historically at the CBSA, the higher you go in rank, the less accountability there always is. We're very confident in many of the things we bring forward regarding managerial behaviour. If this was one of my members, I would be advising them, “You're probably going to be fired.” There's no follow-up. Absolutely nothing happens in general. It is frustrating at our level to see that happen.
Again, change has to come from above. I would really like us to be able to use what's available to the public here.