Veterans Affairs committee  Good afternoon. Mr. Chair and members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to join you today. The Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mountain Police, Michael Duheme, is unable to be here today as a result of prior commitments, but I am pleased to be able to address the committee on his behalf.

Official Languages committee  The answer is simple: yes, we use all resources and all recruiting pools. It is easier to hire public service employees than police officers. Our police officers have to go through Depot and take another six months' training. However, we have just started a project for our federal public service employees and we can consider candidates who have training from another college.

Official Languages committee  Some of our employees handle attracting people to our organization so they will apply. Our preselection process enables us to ensure that the people are able to perform the necessary work. We always try to get a certain number of bilingual graduates from Depot. We have also started increasing the number of bilingual classes.

Official Languages committee  We follow the same process for everyone.

Official Languages committee  No.

Official Languages committee  Thank you for the question. We put the francophone component in place to make sure we can offer service in French everywhere in Canada. There are official language minority communities everywhere in Canada and we would like to have people able to speak French in those communities.

Official Languages committee  Certainly it is essential for anglophones...

Official Languages committee  Yes. We offer a bilingualism bonus, to both francophones and anglophones.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for the question. We are working very diligently—

Public Accounts committee  Yes, I do have confidence in our colleagues at VAC—

Public Accounts committee  All I can do is echo my colleague Mr. Ledwell. We are working quite diligently at senior levels within the organization to make sure that we are paying attention and doing a better job of forecasting what the costs of the program will be. As he mentioned, we do expect that, toward the end of the fiscal year, we will have an opportunity to have a better line of sight on that costing framework going forward.

Public Accounts committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. Thank you for your invitation today. The commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Brenda Lucki, is unavailable to attend due to prior engagements. I am Nadine Huggins, the chief human resources officer of the RCMP.

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much. We are in fact taking very deliberate actions to increase our recruitment and revitalize and modernize our recruitment approaches. We are also following up on attracting experienced police officers—