Public Safety committee  That's true. It's a very effective way of training people, notwithstanding my comments earlier that we're spread out across the country. It's a very efficient way of doing it. The way it's constructed and designed provides very effective training. I can't quote it but I will go o

Public Safety committee  That's right, absolutely, and particularly with respect to our efforts to train harassment investigators. My senior leaders, my managers particularly, my COs are getting one-on-one training on that very issue—from me.

Public Safety committee  Yes, we will undertake actions. For example, presentations will be made in schools and for women's groups. We're targeting where the desired group is. For example, I'm not too concerned about going to an intake of 50% women within two years, although many people have been critic

Public Safety committee  It's a course on harassment, the acts, the regulations, how to manage people. The whole thing is on our computer network. It's important to keep in mind that the RCMP is a large organization, and that it's everywhere. For example, there are two-person detachments in the north an

Public Safety committee  Yes, we have it in our computer system, of course, so that once a person signs on with their own identity and takes the course, then they don't get credit for it until they've passed the course. It's not particularly difficult. It's the idea of going through the computer-based tr

Public Safety committee  The zero tolerance approach needs to be elucidated. They have been told about it. What I have told my managers, starting from my deputy commissioners on down, is that leaders have to engage in managing their workforce. What it means is that there are going to be consequences fo

Public Safety committee  Thank you for your question. I think so. We don't need a lot of resources to do it. We need to change the mentality and change how things are managed. In other words, I think that it's not necessarily dependent on resources, although some resources will have to be put to it. Fo

Public Safety committee  Thank you. Mr. Chair, the gender-based assessment was initiated soon after I came to my post amid the controversies that flowed from the allegations of sexual harassment, predominantly in the west but also in other areas of the force. It was an effort, among other things, to try

Public Safety committee  Yes, I am confident. I think it's a very ambitious plan but it's one that I have gone over with my senior executive, with the minister and Public Safety more generally. We're going to need some support, both from within the organization and outside the organization, but I think i

Public Safety committee  Yes, it will go a long way to modernizing our approach to discipline and the way in which we manage harassment, which is under discussion today, by doing a couple of things, some of which I've already spoken to the committee about. Essentially, the bill will try to get the earl

Public Safety committee  Our goal, as I've stated in the action plan, is to at the very least be compliant with Treasury Board expectations on how these things are to be managed, and they basically shoot for a 12-month process from start to finish. But let me talk for a second about that four-year horro

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Members of the committee, good morning. Last fall the RCMP completed the gender-based assessment that I had requested. The aim of the assessment was to objectively look at our practices and policies for gender bias. This was one of many transformation init

Public Safety committee  That's exactly right.

Public Safety committee  Yes, traffic, and thank you for the question. What we want to do, and I'm on my folks about this all the time, is try to innovate our delivery of policing services both in the contracts and in our federal primary mandate. The RCMP started a long time ago. We've done a lot of thi

Public Safety committee  I think that one of the features we provide to our contracting partners is a consistent level of service and professionalism and an ability to understand exactly what it is they're getting for their dollars. There is also a training standard. There is a service standard. There ar