Public Safety committee  Yes, it was $500,000 a year.

Public Safety committee  Yes. In terms of percentages, it's about 30%.

Public Safety committee  The guards and matrons program is from Manitoba west, which we do under a competitive contract. It's to provide jail guard services on a part-time basis, because there's no need for full time all the time in many communities. But it's all north of 60...and south as well; Doug will expand a tiny little bit on this.

Public Safety committee  It's something that we haven't thought about in the past, but I would say yes. By the way, we do employ five generations in our workforce. In itself that may not seem important, but it is, and especially when you get into work that is a bit more demanding in terms of stress and management.

Public Safety committee  Yes. We have a performance management program. We do a monitor report on each and every member. Of course, it depends, because we have 16 divisions, as we call them, across the country. Some are larger and some are smaller. In a larger environment, it's much easier to provide a career path.

Public Safety committee  Nationally we have approximately just short of 20,000 employees, of which almost 3,000 are part time, so that is 17,000. We have 8,000 retired members from the RCMP and the military, veterans, so it would be about 40%, 45%.

Public Safety committee  That's in the form of wages and benefits, both combined.

Public Safety committee  Absolutely: uniforms, dental programs, medical programs, free training, and that sort of thing.

Public Safety committee  In fact, we have both classroom and online/e-learning training methods. We train our guard force in accordance with provincial legislation and regulation. As well, we train them also because not all provinces have a training regulation or legislation on legislating private security.

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chair, ladies and gentlemen, good morning. I am very pleased to be here today. As your chairman said, I am retired naval Captain Paul Guindon, the CEO of Commissionaires Ottawa, but I do represent the Canadian Corps of Commissionaires as the chairman of our national business management committee.