Mr. Randall Koops at the Public Safety and National Security Committee

I would agree.

I think we would offer the view to the committee that the commission should in fact retain the discretion. This is in the “may suspend” section of the “Duty to suspend”. The commission should retain the discretion to suspend an investigation in an administrative proceeding, bearing in mind, in addition to the ones the RCMP has identified, that serious incident investigations would fall within the ambit of an administrative proceeding, and the commission should have the discretion to suspend on those grounds.