Public Safety committee  Thank you very much, sir. I think it's important that the people who are victims have input into what's going on in their lives. It does not make sense to me that there is none, that things are being done to them and they're just supposed to passively accept it. I think they sho

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much for your question. That is indeed the issue: How do you use the data? If this data falls into nefarious hands, it can be used to further the cause of racism. You have to establish your parameters very carefully; you have to set your criteria very carefully. Y

Public Safety committee  Short-term, we have to get police chiefs on board. They have to set the way the rest of the system is going to work. It has to be a top-down approach. They have to get back to understanding that they are, in fact, the public, that they are not warriors. I think that's a short-t

Public Safety committee  It's important that they be asked why they want to go into policing. If you cannot ascertain that they're going into policing to proffer a service, they shouldn't be police. If they're going into policing so that they can be in an adversarial position with the public, these are n

Public Safety committee  This is like being at an auction: It's a bid.

Public Safety committee  There you go, sir.

Public Safety committee  I can tell you what happened to me when I wrote my report in 2015 for the SPVM. I had difficulty getting the data. There was almost an attitude of “we can't give her this”. I could not enter into their system without their permission, so I was given the data that they allowed me

Public Safety committee  Sorry, Mr. Chair. Thank you.

Public Safety committee  It's something much deeper than that. I don't think we need more training. Honestly, I don't think training is going to change anything. We've done a lot of that. As you may know, I was at John Abbott College. I was the chair of that department. I was the vice-chair of the board

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much for the question. I think it could be better, but I am encouraged that both levels of government are starting to recognize the importance of mental health. Where I have difficulty is that I don't think the mental health difficulties experienced by people wh

Public Safety committee  No, I haven't. I've looked at other aspects of police interventions and police-citizen relationship, but I haven't looked at the incidence of suicide. What I can tell you is that high anxiety levels and no way to cope with them, as well as things like fear and depression, which

Public Safety committee  Good afternoon, Chair, committee members and fellow panellists. I am very honoured to have been asked to address you and, in this manner, continue to serve my adoptive country. In 1829, based on nine guiding principles, Sir Robert Peel created the first modern and professiona