Thank you very much for asking the question and seeking my input.
In thinking about this opportunity here with all of you today, part of what I was thinking was.... Obviously I don't know anywhere near what you know about the kinds of legislation you could be effective in passing or not passing, and what it could do or what it couldn't do, but I can give you some ideas about what occurs to me that could be done at the federal level.
Think about all the federal employees you have some sort of mandate to address, and as an example, I'll give you the military. I think this needs to be built into military training at all levels, period, end of sentence. It needs to be every commander and every new recruit, to the chiefs of all the services, the admirals and the generals and all the top officials, as well as the grunts on the ground. Everybody needs to be trained in all of this, period, end of sentence. It needs to be part of the organic training, and again, not just an add-on, some special event that happens, or some response to some specific scandal. That's a federal mandate.
As for the RCMP, everybody in the RCMP should be trained regularly and should be up to date with best practices in prevention. I'm not just talking here about law enforcement tactics and how to make arrests. I'm not talking about the police procedural piece of this. Obviously they get that kind of training.