Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think the number is significant in the context of my submission and the provisions around what defines a serious criminal. I think that in this country anybody who receives a custodial sentence of six months would have had to commit a serious crime. As a front line officer, wh

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Good afternoon. Yes I can.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and members of the committee. It's my pleasure to appear before you today in support of Bill C-43, the faster removal of foreign criminals act. I'm appearing today in my role as president of the Canadian Police Association, an organization that represents o

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I agree with you. I'll answer by touching on the question he just asked. I don't think it's an issue of restricting the authority of the commissioner at all. I think the commissioner, like any police chief in a municipal or provincial environment or any C

Public Safety committee  In my view, yes, that would be the solution. Again, there has to be some distinction between the types of conduct issues you are looking at. I can't think of any other example in any kind of statutory regime or oversight process that is designed to deal with issues that arise f

Public Safety committee  One concern is that there doesn't appear to be any distinction between the types of examples of conduct or misconduct that Mr. Hiebert is referring to versus allegations of criminal misconduct. That's one big concern. The other thing is that in other provincial statutory regime

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chair and members of the committee, thank you for providing the opportunity to address you today regarding Bill C-42, the Enhancing Royal Canadian Mounted Police Accountability Act. I'm speaking today on behalf of the Canadian Police Association, an organization that represe

Justice committee  As I said in my opening comments, we generally support the changes in C-26. Like you said, as long as those defensive actions are reasonable under the circumstances, and are used or relied upon specifically to stop a threat, then we support that. I think the concern, though, if t

Justice committee  Yes. Technology was mentioned. I referred to it briefly in my opening comments. I think it's important to consider some of the changes that have occurred and to what extent we can now rely on technology, whereas maybe we couldn't in the seventies or eighties. The fact is that t

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  I didn't hear his entire testimony, but I did hear some of the reports of it.

Justice committee  That's correct.

Justice committee  Yes, that's how I understand it.

Justice committee  No, not to my knowledge.