Public Safety committee  Thank you for that question. I'll try to be brief. Essentially, contract policing exists in eight of the ten provinces. With the exception of Quebec and Ontario, we are the provincial police force in those provinces. We share that role with the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary, o

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I don't know if I can add much about the fund and the sunsetting. I can speak to the contract policing in the supplementary estimates if you would like some more information on that, but I share the deputy minister's understanding.

Public Safety committee  The best way to answer that is to say that I don't see funding as an impediment to our fixing what we have to fix to address the cultural issues. Since I've been commissioner, I've changed a lot of things in the organization. One of the things I've done is to change the way I i

Public Safety committee  Yes, there is, and that turns on me, on the existing training budgets I have within this organization, on the content, and on the way they are delivered. We have a supervisory development course, a managers development course, an executives development course. All of those three

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Chair. I don't know that they need to be concerned with.... I think they need to be similarly optimistic, because I think the idea of empowering our supervisors at the detachment level to take care of business, as it were, in terms of managing the conduct of their emp

Public Safety committee  That's exactly right. We're blessed with a central training area, Depot, that we have all of our members go through. It's six months, but it's an action-packed six months. They do get exposed to a number of the major initiatives in the force. We also have field monitoring systems

Public Safety committee  I'm trying to send that signal to Canadians every day, by innovating our policies and practices with respect to gender, to not only come up to the industry standard in terms of how people in Canada, in the various workplaces that we have in Canada, are approaching gender-based is

Public Safety committee  Thank you for that question. There are some things that we will do, and in fact are doing. One thing is recognizing that the nine-point-something million dollars that we talked about is going to training all of these detachment commanders and supervisors in the requirements for

Public Safety committee  No, as I said, I think this proposed legislation will go a long way to help me in building a culture of managers who have to manage and police officers who have to do police work. I think the responsibility around those judgment issues that you've described falls squarely on my s

Public Safety committee  I think it's important to understand that it is our practice now. We have a policy that very closely resembles this new legislation, in terms of declaring that we don't want to investigate ourselves. So to the extent that the provinces, territories, or others can create these i

Public Safety committee  Yes. Before that, though, they would have a path through our External Review Committee.

Public Safety committee  The process will be one, as I have said a couple of times today, where we are going to want our front-line supervisors and managers to deal with the lion's share of conduct-related matters. That will require some training and it will require a different sort of approach than we h

Public Safety committee  With respect to discipline cases, what would happen in an ordinary, run-of-the-mill discipline case under this new legislation would be that a supervisor, apprised of conduct that he suspects contravenes the code of conduct, would assemble whatever material he needs to inform him

Public Safety committee  Greater efficiency was the main driver. There are three systems for three categories of employees. There's no provision in the current RCMP Act for even the category of civilian employee. It's important to understand the evolution of that category of employee, because in many ca

Public Safety committee  I believe it will take one year. We have to consult employees. We have to ensure that there is a fair allocation of the benefits to which they are currently entitled. We have to review the mechanisms with Treasury Board to keep the current slate of benefits they have right now.