Mr. Speaker, I can say with great confidence I had no knowledge of this report.
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Apec Inquiry October 29th, 1998
Mr. Speaker, I can say with great confidence I had no knowledge of this report.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police October 29th, 1998
Mr. Speaker, perhaps if the member had listened to the previous answer he would understand that organized crime and drugs are the law enforcement priorities of this government.
We are meeting tomorrow with the attorney general of British Columbia and other attorneys general and solicitors general on this very subject.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police October 29th, 1998
Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the member for his question.
Very specifically, we are working, as I have said many times, on organized crime. It is the law enforcement priority of this government. As it happens, we are meeting with the attorney general of British Columbia tomorrow on this very subject.
Apec Inquiry October 28th, 1998
Mr. Speaker, parliament has already decided how Canadians should deal with complaints against the RCMP. It is the public complaints commission. It was established in 1988. It has a good record. It is internationally respected and it is on the job now. It is master of its own proceedings. This government respects this parliament's decision to establish that commission.
Apec Inquiry October 28th, 1998
Mr. Speaker, the decision as to whether to lay charges was a decision of the attorney general's department of British Columbia.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police October 27th, 1998
Mr. Speaker, as I said before, the RCMP is experiencing financial restraint like everybody else. In this case it has temporarily stopped training at the depot in Regina. This has happened many times before. It is not unusual. It is simply a function of the way that the RCMP chooses to manage the situation.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police October 27th, 1998
Mr. Speaker, the amount of money made available to fight organized crime in the last budget was a $7 million or $8 million increase over the year before.
The reality is that the way the money is spent by the RCMP is an operational question left to management of the RCMP, a very respected police force in Canada.
Apec Inquiry October 27th, 1998
Mr. Speaker, the Public Complaints Commission will get to the truth exactly the way parliament intended it be done.
Apec Inquiry October 27th, 1998
Mr. Speaker, in 1988 parliament decided how to deal with citizens' complaints against the RCMP. It created the Public Complaints Commission. It has operated effectively for 10 years. That is the way parliament decided to deal with such situations and that is what is happening now.
Apec Inquiry October 26th, 1998
Mr. Speaker, the member is absolutely wrong. The complainants have access to challenge the decision of the counsel to the commission, and the counsel to the commission is doing his job by showing them how to do that according to the rules of the public complaints commission. That is how it is done.