Public Safety committee  On the exclusions themselves, if you look at the exclusions holistically for the RCMP versus other police forces, you will find that they are very similar to those of other police forces across the country. I'm talking about our major comparators. They are very similar. As well,

Public Safety committee  No, there was not. When we went out with the survey, it was really specific to the labour relations regime. Notwithstanding that, with regard to the changes to GECA and health care modernization, that's been under discussion since 2011, 2012, 2013, with the staff relations prog

Public Safety committee  Well, there would be no costs off the top, because right now we're paying 100% regardless for members who are occupationally injured. That would not change. The only change you may see is actually the premium paid to workers' compensation, but that's negotiated through ESDC, the

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chair, I don't have a presentation. We'll just open it up to questions whenever Mr. Head is done.

Public Safety committee  No, I do not not, Mr. Chair. I thank the committee for taking an interest in this, and I will echo all of my colleague's comments. As you know, we've been at this for several years now, and we've had our mental health strategy since 2014. I'm willing to answer any questions ab

Public Safety committee  I will talk about it as it relates to the RCMP. We have data about incidents that happen in the workplace. There is also the Veterans Affairs Canada data that gives us an idea of the number of people who apply for a pension. There is also data from our insurance companies. We ha

Public Safety committee  That is a very good question. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has had a complete mental health strategy for the past two years. The first year, templates were used to help managers communicate with our members. It really meant being sensitive to our members and their stories.

Public Safety committee  The foundation is the road to mental health readiness, and we thank the CF every day for this, as well as the Canadian Mental Health Association. We use that as a foundation. We haven't changed the core piece of it because we find that it fits very well with our organization. Wha

Public Safety committee  We didn't have that post-deployment part of it. Post-deployment is when they're going to deploy overseas. We don't have that. We have a post-deployment structure when we do deploy our members overseas, so we do that then, but I'm talking about a standard R2MR for all veterans.

Public Safety committee  We're using the foundational piece. What we have changed, madam, is on how the services are available in the organization, the policies we have within our organizations to deal with mental health issues and the other occupational issues, and how you will deal with the employees,

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you so much, Mr. Chair, and members of the committee. First of all, I'd like to thank you all for your ongoing examination of benefits afforded our serving and retired members of the RCMP who have been injured on duty and for your invitation to be here today. As the chai

Veterans Affairs committee  It's a very good question to ask. Today I can't provide specific numbers returning from theatre, but I could get those numbers to the committee if you would like to see them. I can tell you the prevalence in the organization, going through our VAC colleagues and watching statist

Veterans Affairs committee  No, and that's one of the gaps we've noticed. What we've done in the last couple of years under Pierre's leadership is we have a liaison officer sitting with Veterans Affairs. We've been working on this outreach program trying to educate our members on how this works, that if the

Veterans Affairs committee  As to how many retire early, I can't give you the specific stats. I can tell you that the attrition rates for most of our female members—the average time at which they retire, unless it's changed—is after about 28 years' service. Our male members are going for 35 years. Contrary

Veterans Affairs committee  Then further on, our members are lifers, and most of them retire at full pension.