Public Safety committee  I would welcome a group coming to the folks who lead our initiative in Saskatchewan. We'd have open arms to them. If we can share anything to help, that's what it's all about, first and foremost. With communities such as these, it's important that we give the ability to act local

Public Safety committee  For sure you're right. There are a couple of things in relation to that. Certainly in the province of Saskatchewan, first nations policing is a significant role for us. In my former role as president of the CACP, we stated what the value of first nations policing was, and we cont

Public Safety committee  I think there are some things you could really look at, some type of legislation in relation to privacy that encourages people to share information when acute, elevated risk exists. We've gone from an age where we're scared to share information—and that's crazy. When safety is in

Public Safety committee  Respectfully step on toes. It's about leadership and not ownership. We need to get out of ownership and more into leadership, because that's what we all do well. Sometimes you just have to go out and get it done.

Public Safety committee  Sorry to cut in, but did you ask for me to comment on that?

Public Safety committee  Okay. First, I apologize for not being able to speak French. What I would say is that what you said is bang on. It's about balance. In my role as president of CACP I gave evidence in support of Bill C-10. I said that we're not going to arrest our way out of our troubles, but we

Public Safety committee  The police in a hub/COR environment is different than a 911 response. The 911 response is going to get the police, absolutely, or the emergency responders. But it's just one facet. There's stuff coming through the schools and social services. We're getting stuff through health an

Public Safety committee  Right now, each ministry, each service provider, that's involved in the hub and the COR, evaluates themself. What we also do is that we put the university right into the COR; the University of Saskatchewan is in there. We're trying to do a more comprehensive, in-depth and brand n

Public Safety committee  Let me give you that in a visual example that I think probably would help everybody understand. If you take a MacDonald's in Ottawa and a MacDonald's in Japan, basically MacDonald's International runs both of those. The software systems are the same, the cooking order is the same

Public Safety committee  It's basically policy procedures. It's putting it all in a box. It does have a system we've designed that makes it a lot easier from a technological point of view, but it's basically boxing it all up so that it's replicable. You may have to tweak that to meet each region in the c

Public Safety committee  That's a great point and a great question. Their success is the ability to act locally. For instance, in northern Saskatchewan you can't give a Regina solution, just as you can't give an Ottawa solution. There's no cost to a hub; it's just folks doing their business differently

Public Safety committee  Well, that's a very good point. How we got operational in Saskatchewan was by trying to develop a model that is very similar to what a lot of folks would know as a franchise, which can be replicated. So you build your processes and get everything in place, dot your i's and cross

Public Safety committee  We currently have the university studying that right now, and we will have more in-depth numbers. But the real question here is that if you focus just on wages, the work needs to get done. You can find different ways to do the work more cheaply, or you can take a different approa

Public Safety committee  Thanks, Mr. Chair. Like the others, I would like to start by thanking each of the members of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security for having me appear here again in support of your ongoing studies. I was pleased to receive this invitation to build upo