Public Safety committee  You mean if the act were changed, and they put that in the act as a guideline?

Public Safety committee  I don't know.

Public Safety committee  If the person self-discloses, then we would get a call.

Public Safety committee  But if the person didn't self-disclose, Edmonton police wouldn't be aware that person had been in the witness protection program.

Public Safety committee  That's correct, yes.

Public Safety committee  I guess it's easy to examine individual cases in the intake process, whether or not the person was a good agent to take on; obviously, we deal with high volume. So do we have problems? Certainly we do at times. We also have a lot of successes, as you're aware, as well. But that's separate from the actual program.

Public Safety committee  Actually, I think we're seen as a leader worldwide when it comes to human source handling and development; we have people from agencies all around the world come here. When we set up our source witness protection course, we went abroad as well; we went down to the States to look at their program and we spoke to other experts.

Public Safety committee  If a person commits a criminal offence—and obviously murder is a criminal offence—we would look at the criminal offence, and the decision whether or not the person will be terminated from the program would rest with the assistant commissioner for federal and international operations.

Public Safety committee  Right.

Public Safety committee  Correct.

Public Safety committee  I could say that the termination process of Mr. Young is in progress, but it's not finalized, due to the process I talked about. To be more specific, the subject has been advised that he will be terminated, and he's consulted his lawyer and is bringing back information to appeal that decision.

Public Safety committee  You mean a separate law enforcement agency that would look after it?

Public Safety committee  I'm not really sure. And my impression was that the U.S. Marshals were a police agency in the United States.

Public Safety committee  I'm not aware of any cases in the national witness protection program that fit that scenario. There may be people in local programs, in provincial programs who fit that criterion, but as far as I know, we don't have anybody who would fit that criterion in the national program.

Public Safety committee  I'm sorry, I don't know anything about that.