Status of Women committee  Okay. Those are part of the respectful workplace initiatives that the COs are delivering province by province by province. I know that in British Columbia, which is perhaps what some people were referring to, there was discussion of 100 additional investigators being trained. Tho

Status of Women committee  Yes, I think we are. The bill also doesn't say anything about police officer corruption or police officers doing burglaries or police officers assaulting people, but it's understood that the conduct and the discipline that is attached to our employees in discharging their duties

Status of Women committee  Thank you for that question, because the RCMP is very active in training our members and in insisting that our members are plugged into their communities where they have the responsibility of policing. So our members get front-line training in terms of awareness issues and cultur

Status of Women committee  I think the zero tolerance approach is better understood as one where we are making sure that all of our supervisors and leaders are acting proactively when they see circumstances that may give rise to some of those complaints, and that when people do make complaints they'd bette

Status of Women committee  Yes, I do.

Status of Women committee  I think it is. I've heard similar criticism. There's a concern that too much power is being centralized in my office. I don't think that stands the test of examination because there are ample mechanisms for accountability as well with that increased authority I'm going to be aske

Status of Women committee  Well, I'm disappointed, Ms. Sgro, that you would suggest that Line Carbonneau retired right after.... Line Carbonneau stood up. She volunteered to take this on and to begin to lay the groundwork for all the things we're doing now. She is a first-rate officer, a great colleague, a

Status of Women committee  She has been replaced. Her job was replaced. Peter Henschel went into her job, and he's doing a fine job there. If your point is that we need more deputy commissioners on the senior executive committee, I agree with you. I don't have any serving women as a deputy commissioner.

Status of Women committee  The action plan discusses that at some considerable length, and I'll briefly describe it. We have a good feeder pool, if I can use the term, of candidates at the NCO and senior NCO levels. We have to get those folks interested in the commissioned officer ranks. Many of them are

Status of Women committee  I misunderstood your question. Do you mean an independent commission to oversee the RCMP?

Status of Women committee  Well, you just heard from them.

Status of Women committee  Not me.

Status of Women committee  Absolutely.

Status of Women committee  That's not for me to decide whether our employees unionize or take advantage of the existing approach, which is the staff representative system. That's for them to decide. I agree with the idea that members need to be represented. Our employees need to be represented with mana

Status of Women committee  The governance changes in the force, or in respect of...?