Finance committee  I think in general I would say that the amendments were fully consistent with the original intent of the Ending the Long-gun Registry Act.

Finance committee  I do.

Finance committee  Good morning. Many of you will recall that in October 2011, the ending the long-gun registry bill was introduced in the House. In April 2012, the Ending the Long-gun Registry Act came into force. That act had two primary objectives. The first was to end the registration of long

Public Safety committee  I think that's a broad question, and you'd have to look at particular initiatives, particular jurisdictions. Certainly, overall, we're seeing a decline in the reported crime rate right across Canada. That's not necessarily the case in every single jurisdiction and for every singl

Public Safety committee  I think we're trying to be very sensitive in developing the strategy to be respectful of the operational decisions particular police services need to make. They need to make those decisions in consultation with their residents. This isn't a matter certainly for the federal govern

Public Safety committee  Absolutely. The agreement and the direction that has been provided by FPT ministers is all ministers, including the ministers of public safety and justice from the Province of Quebec. They were part of that consensus in asking us to hold the summit, develop the index of policing

Public Safety committee  You don't have to look too far. I think in the Globe and Mail today there's a report from Europe where a non-governmental organization there was essentially using a technique of putting information about child sexual exploitation on line and seeing how many individuals from aroun

Public Safety committee  I think there has been a lot of progress in this area, but it's mixed. So in dealing with individuals with mental health issues, it's often a two-pronged approach. You've heard from certain police chiefs in this regard. They will go on patrol with a public health nurse. You'll ha

Public Safety committee  I think the federal government—and, frankly, all governments—has tried to take a balanced approach, whether it's strengthening laws on the one hand or focusing on crime prevention and support to communities on the other. We have the National Crime Prevention Centre in Canada; I

Public Safety committee  I think once again I'd make the caveat...and I don't mean to sound unhelpful, but for a federal government official like myself to comment on the operations of particular agencies, whether they're federal or provincial, is not entirely appropriate. I do know, in talking to many

Public Safety committee  I think you're right. The police are dealing with a tremendous range of crimes and new crimes that are emerging.

Public Safety committee  Thank you. I'll start with your first comment. It echoes a number of your colleagues' comments about court time and the efficiency of using officers in that way. I don't want to sound like a broken record, but the index, the sharing of best practices, can be a tremendously hel

Public Safety committee  I'm not sure anyone has broken down the $12.9 billion that we spend annually on policing, for example, how much of that is officers attending court on overtime or what have you. I haven't seen a study that does that. I think it would be tremendously difficult to break the data do

Public Safety committee  Thank you for the question. I don't believe they will be there because this is a ministerial meeting of federal-provincial-territorial ministers of public safety and justice. To be completely honest with you, I'm presenting on this topic. I'm not involved in organizing the whole

Public Safety committee  I think that's a good question, and one that I'm not really in the best position to answer. I can refer to the testimony from Dale McFee, who is now the deputy minister in Saskatchewan for public safety and was the head of the Prince Albert Police Service, the service in Canada t