Government Operations committee  Under the Corrections and Conditional Release Act, which governs CSC, it has two mandates. I'll explain them simply without reading the text of the act. The first mandate is to protect the safety of the public and ensure that the inmate does not escape. I would say that the manda

Government Operations committee  That's a good question, madam. I will answer you by saying that, for example, tomorrow and Thursday I will attend a meeting on gangs.

Government Operations committee  Street gangs, criminalized gangs and gangs that try to take control of institutions with other inmates. This reality creates problems for managing the population. How can we have street gangs we call the reds, the blues, the Hell's Angels, the Rock Machine, the mafia and make th

Government Operations committee  We have eight labour-management meetings a year where we can share our doubts and fears with Mr. Head. I believe that the challenge for us, as a union and as correctional officers, is that we need to be able to be heard when we talk about our working conditions. It's a difficult

Government Operations committee  First, we must always remember that somewhere a correctional officer is opening a cell door. In other words, when the officer does the rounds in the range, there are two inmates in the cell. There are inmates under maximum, medium and minimum security. So the risk can be higher.

Government Operations committee  Good afternoon. My name is Pierre Mallette. I am the national president of the Union of Canadian Correctional Officers, which has over 7,000 members across the country. Our union's role is well-known, but let's keep in mind that it has the safety, training and working conditions

Veterans Affairs committee  I would like to thank you for giving us the opportunity to come here this morning. If we had one thing to ask of you, it would be, please, try to find a way of including us in the bill. We aren't there. We would also like to send a message to all of the parties. We have been wo

Veterans Affairs committee  Maybe I don't want to go back to 1966, because I was born in 1964.

Veterans Affairs committee  You are from the Liberal Party. Our union has been trying since 2002 to negotiate improvements to our pension plan. In 2005, your government amended that act that allows a pension to go from 2% to 2.33%. I repeat, we would like to find the forum where we could explain our views:

Veterans Affairs committee  We will be pleased to provide you with that, Mr. Gaudet.

Veterans Affairs committee  At present, a corrections officer can retire after 25 years' service. They will then receive 2% per year of service, so 50% of their salary.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  There is no maximum, you can work more than 35 years, but after 35, you stop paying into the pension plan.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, and after 35 years, you get 70% of your salary.

Veterans Affairs committee  When they changed the law to 2.33% in 2005, it was not just for correctional officers. These other groups were there too. They had the chance to get the same thing as we got. When you compare the work that a correctional officer is doing inside the institution, we're sitting with