Health committee  From my perspective, education is always the best first approach. We have to realize that we turned our society upside down. Literally overnight, we told citizens right across the country that they couldn't do things they'd always been able to do. Businesses were being closed dow

Health committee  I think it's really important for the messaging to be consistent, starting with the federal government. That's why I think the federal government has a leadership role, then on through all of our provincial health officers and our elected officials provincially and then further t

Health committee  Thank you for the question. That's why, in my opening remarks, I tried to emphasize that one of the challenges of policing in this very unprecedented environment is exactly what that officer you were in contact with described to you. We often don't know whom we're dealing with,

Health committee  From my perspective, I think there needs to be better coordination around the messaging. We were hearing federal officials commenting publicly about things like self-isolation orders or quarantine orders. Those comments were widely covered by the media, yet on the street, on the

Health committee  Mr. Chair, members of the committee, thank you for the invitation to appear before you this afternoon as you continue your study into the Canadian response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and for the opportunity to provide a front-line policing perspective on this important ongoing iss

Public Safety committee  I suppose what I would say is that I'm advocating for them to have the ability to do that where they believe there's a reason to do so. I'm not suggesting you create a mechanism where they have to do it in every case.

Public Safety committee  It gives you a very brief description of the offence. There's no context or additional information.

Public Safety committee  No, and I would agree with my co-panellists here that record-keeping is an issue. The other issue is that while we all rely on CPIC nationally, provincially there are different databases that capture information as well. Even if you delete a record from CPIC, it doesn't mean the

Public Safety committee  No, they're not synchronized. Policing falls under provincial jurisdiction, and each province will make their own decisions with respect to provincial databases that might be used to capture law enforcement-generated data.

Public Safety committee  I think you could. I agree with the sentiment that in today's world, there should be some way of quickly managing records, at least with CPIC. If you came up with a process where there was a document that a person could be given that confirms that the record has been deleted or e

Public Safety committee  Yes, it's a national database. All police services across the country have access to CPIC.

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  That's a good question.

Public Safety committee  Yes. I think my reading of it is that it's specifically talking about simple possession. If there aren't those other circumstances, then I don't see why you couldn't apply it once. But I don't think it's clear.

Public Safety committee  It would just be my concern that the board wouldn't have access to that information, because my experience as a police officer is that there are often those plea arrangements made for good reason. As I said in my opening remarks, those agreements are arrived at for a reason, and