Public Accounts committee  That had been a contention in the past, but in reviewing the recommendations of the Auditor General, we fully agree that her definition of backlog is a viable and workable definition. Under the frame of reference she was dealing with, we accept that definition and agree there is

Public Accounts committee  We have redesigned how we will deal with those kinds of cases and have put together a new matrix of what we consider A, B, and C cases. The first set of cases will be addressed, the most serious cases, in a response time of between 45 and 60 days. The cases that fall outside that

Public Accounts committee  I'll let Deputy Martin, if he will, address that issue.

Public Accounts committee  I'll do my best, Mr. Chairman. Thank you. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the Auditor General's spring 2007 audit report, which makes recommendations specific to the RCMP forensic laboratory services.

Public Safety committee  I can confirm what Mr. Judd is saying with regard to our intention being turned into the reality of working very closely together, and the issue of whether something is a national security issue for an intelligence purpose or when it becomes criminal is something that we work ver

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  It is generally delegated to the head of our National Police Services, NPS, to deal with on a day-to-day basis.

Public Safety committee  I don't know how specific you would like it to be. We have been dealing with a company to bring a new product on-line.

Public Safety committee  Well, yes. What has happened is that has fallen through. Their ability to bring us what we needed was not satisfactory, so we have decided to support the database that is presently in place with internal technical support. We believe we have a fix for that database that will no

Public Safety committee  Yes, there is.

Public Safety committee  I believe I can. I'd be happy to, if I can.

Public Safety committee  If I can, I will.

Public Safety committee  No.

Public Safety committee  I use a different interpretation of that word, and we do have a backlog.

Public Safety committee  We have made an internal investment and redeployed a number of resources to enable us to begin to hire more scientists, so that we can go on shift work to increase our ability to deal with the increased demand for data analysis. We are also building a new matrix, so that we can b