Public Safety committee  We haven't conducted a formal review, but we do participate with a number of other countries that have witness protection acts. There have been a number of discussions internally as to other ways we may be able to improve the process.

Public Safety committee  We presented a proposal that was really just a draft proposal, but the general theme behind the draft proposal was that there is only one witness protection program under the witness protection act, and that's the one administered through the commissioner and the assistant commissioner.

Public Safety committee  The report dealt more with how an integrated national witness protection program could be structured.

Public Safety committee  We don't have a separate budget assigned for the relocation and moving of these people. We pay for these expenses as we incur them. We pay for them at the divisional level. It should be pointed out that the witness protection program is not just for the RCMP, it's also for all law enforcement across Canada.

Public Safety committee  We've had a number of cases in which the witnesses themselves did things to divulge that they were in the program. When that happens, what we'll often do is serve them a notice of breach, saying that they've breached the protective agreement. But we may keep them in the program, and what we'll do is go through the steps again to provide them with a new secure identity and move them again.