Public Safety committee  There isn't. We are building that business case as we speak.

Public Safety committee  We were actually in the midst of the Auditor General's report when those observations were made known. We have engaged a number of other labs to come and do peer research of our lab, and there are some other things taking place as well.

Public Safety committee  We will be addressing that in further replies to the Auditor General's report.

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  I will do that, yes.

Public Safety committee  Yes, we do.

Public Safety committee  To answer your question, the closing of the units in Quebec were not purely a funding issue. They were an issue around how to get a critical mass of investigators together to do the type of priority work that is done between issues around border integrity and drug enforcement in

Public Safety committee  We certainly haven't abandoned any measure of the issue around border security. My suggestion is that over the years, with the new focus on integrations, new partnerships, and new ways of doing business with our provincial and municipal partners, we have opportunities to do thing

Public Safety committee  That's a difficult question to answer, generally. We too are concerned about the integrity of the database and the responsibility to make sure that both Canadians and our own police officers are safe as they go about their business in dealing with those kinds of issues. The int

Public Safety committee  The decision around the amnesty issue was certainly not our issue. Our issue, and our continued issue, is to make sure that the laws in place are enforced and moved forward. What I feel about the amnesty is secondary to the fact that at the end of the day, the amnesty was designe

Public Safety committee  I understand that as well, but I will get back to you if I am wrong.

Public Safety committee  I'm afraid I don't have that information at my fingertips, but I will supply it to the committee.

Public Safety committee  Thank you. I'll be the one to say that there's never enough money to do everything you want to do in policing, and unfortunately it continues to be a growth industry in this country. But for this period of time, we feel that we have the support and funding to address the priorit

Public Safety committee  In addition to what the minister said, over the next three years we will be addressing the vacancy pattern, and during that time, of course, seniority increases. We have a very good level of comfort that in the next few years the vacancy pattern will be at zero and the plan to co

Public Accounts committee  Anything that's humanly or legally possible will be done for this presentation.