Public Safety committee  It's very difficult to answer that, because there are many people who have consulted me and I didn't take their case. I might get calls from British Columbia or from Nova Scotia, where it's not practical. But they're complaining about the treatment that they've received from the

Public Safety committee  No, I'm not aware of any.

Public Safety committee  No, and my point is still valid. From my point of view, I would say that even 90% of the main people sounds very high to me.

Public Safety committee  Okay, when you say “completed successfully”, I am not sure what that means. Does it mean that there was an award? Sometimes we might resolve it by saying that they get new identities. Say the RCMP was refusing to give a new identity, or refusing to relocate the person; I might br

Public Safety committee  Being a lawyer, I want to say that all my cases are successful. Well, they haven't all been against the RCMP. There have been some against the Province of Ontario, and let me tell you that people who are involved with the RCMP have to be involved with the Province of Ontario an

Public Safety committee  I think sometimes their testimony is only part of it. Some don't even have to testify. They might have criminality and go and buy some drugs, etc., and then the authorities or the police get the evidence other ways so that the people plead guilty, in which case the testimony and

Public Safety committee  I'll answer that. First of all, I think that it's better to have a program, and it's better to have the legislation than not to have the legislation. I was particularly interested in reading the transcript of when you had three police officers before you, and you asked them abou

Public Safety committee  Which is done with the criminal law now.

Public Safety committee  Well, I was able to talk about one: that the individual should have a lawyer at the appropriate time, so that he or she knows what he or she is getting into. I think that should be mandatory, and it's not unknown to the law. Here you have the RCMP, or whatever organization, which

Public Safety committee  I think that every five years is better than 12, that's for sure, but there has to be meaningful information to you. You have to be able to get a good grasp of what's happening. In a lot of the testimony that I've read so far, I haven't read all of it, you're not given that infor

Public Safety committee  Absolutely. If you say you are going to review it on a five-year period basis, there should be a provision in there—and I'm not going to do it off the top of my head because that wouldn't be meaningful—that the information you require—And it's not catch as catch can, not that the

Public Safety committee  I would certainly support that.

Public Safety committee  Right, and it's also a possibility that the one guy, out of the five or six, has not been involved with crime. I had a very notorious case that resolved a few years ago. It made headlines. It was the brother of the national president of the international Outlaws bikers associatio

Public Safety committee  I support that.

Public Safety committee  No, it's just the enacting of the legislation. If they're provincial bodies or municipal bodies, let them pay for their own.