Public Safety committee  I know that in some of our reports we've recommended diversity and inclusion training, and former commissioner Lucki was supportive of that. They have put together some programs that they're using. I'm not sure if reservists are being trained with those new programs or not.

Public Safety committee  I'd say, yes, I agree with you. It's absolutely critical that they have that type of training.

Public Safety committee  The commission kicked off a project about a year and a half ago. It's called the multiple complaint subject member project. We track the number of complaints that are received about certain officers and we share that information back with the RCMP leadership. Once it goes into th

Public Safety committee  Sometimes those things will be available, proactively disclosed on our website. There are also privacy concerns that are out there, so we're sensitive to that, but we do highlight cases where an individual has multiple complaints and multiple issues. We will highlight those in th

Public Safety committee  Less time is always going to be better. The issue is if they're not meeting the timeline right now, I don't see that reducing the timeline is going to help the situation any more. Six weeks is what's agreed to in the memorandum of understanding that we have with them.

Public Safety committee  I obviously called for this when I came before the committee when you were doing your study into systemic racism in policing. I think we need to understand who's complaining, but we also need to understand who's not complaining, and why aren't they complaining. For example, we wo

Public Safety committee  Yes, we do. We did a brochure distribution project. In fact, up in Nunavut, they're all available in Inuktitut.

Public Safety committee  It is supposed to be available at all the detachments. That's the deal we have with them.

Public Safety committee  It really depends upon the situation. In fact, one of the recommendations we have put forth is that it should be entrenched in regulations how long they have to provide that information. Our current MOU speaks to that with the RCMP. I think it's six weeks that they're supposed

Public Safety committee  Our process speaks to “satisfied” or “not satisfied”. If an individual requests us to do a review, we will issue either a satisfied report or we'll issue an interim report. In 90% of the cases that come to us on review, we find that we are satisfied with the way the RCMP hand

Public Safety committee  We'd like to do the serious use of force and personal liberty issues. We will get a use of force allegation, for example, that an individual felt that the handcuffs were too tight. I don't think it's a judicious use of the commission's resources to look at that, but if it's a mor

Public Safety committee  Right now we're at $15.2 million. We originally asked for another $23 million. I would say that if we were sitting at about $40 million or $45 million, that would be a reasonable operating budget for us to be able to do these important investigations using our own resources.

Public Safety committee  I think that's a question that's better placed for the RCMP. I'm not 100% sure in terms of what their refresher training program is.

Public Safety committee  As the chairperson, I would love nothing more than to have indigenous representation within my investigators and all of the different diasporas within our investigations. In cases where we don't have that, we do use translation services. We're in the process of completing an inv

Public Safety committee  Yes, that's a fair statement, absolutely.