Public Safety committee  It would be a consideration among the many others the Governor in Council would bring to bear to ensure representation. Similar provisions, both those in Bill C-40 and the ones that exist now in the RCMP Act in relation to the management advisory board, place that onus on the mi

Public Safety committee  I think the concern around the amendment is that it would propose that the appointees of the commission named by the Governor in Council include four specific communities. The entire commission is quite small. It would consist of only five Governor in Council appointees: the chai

Public Safety committee  In developing the funding package that was sought for the legislative proposal, the department worked very closely with both agencies, and with the commission, in trying to predict what might be a likely workload, or caseload, that is brought to a commission. We modelled the curr

Public Safety committee  It's about 3,000 to 4,000.

Public Safety committee  It's 2,500.

Public Safety committee  There are 3,000 to 4,000 complaints a year internally at CBSA. Those are prepandemic travel numbers. We looked at what scaling up the commission to handle roughly that volume of complaints about CBSA might look like, and then, in working with the central agencies of the Departm

Public Safety committee  It's roughly that number, yes.

Public Safety committee  The government is in the process of increasing funding to the commission.

Public Safety committee  Yes, we hope that it will shorten processing times, and we hope to increase the commission's capacity. The government decided to create a single commission to follow the existing national security model. We want to establish agencies that follow a type of activity across the fed

Public Safety committee  All complaints currently before the commission will continue to be handled in the same way under the new regulations. With regard to feedback, paragraph 10 of clause 113 of Bill C‑20 specifies that complaints can be filed with the commission even before the new sections come int

Public Safety committee  The term is quite broad and that was done on purpose. We work on the principle that the commission itself is able to better understand the needs of complainants. Therefore, we're proposing a fairly broad piece of legislation. Right now, I know that the existing commission is pu

Public Safety committee  RCMP reservists are not covered, not because of a provision that's in this bill, but because they aren't covered now. The extension of the new regime, and the creation of the PCRC, preserves the status quo. Reservists in the RCMP are not employees; they are not members. They're n

Public Safety committee  Based on the current fiscal year, the budget for the commission is $15.7 million. In the previous year, it spent $10 million. The amount of $112.3 million over six years is allocated to the project as a whole, including the resources that the commission will need and those that

Public Safety committee  The PCRC will be fully independent, in that it alone will decide what to investigate. It has its own rules of evidence. The PCRC, as under the current regime of the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission, would ordinarily give the right of first instance of investigation to