Public Safety committee  The direct costs associated with the protection of the witness.

Public Safety committee  No. Within the new legislation we're looking to the provinces to designate, and we will help work with them and train those people designated to even further streamline the process of obtaining the federal documents. But we will continue to work with our provincial partners, abso

Public Safety committee  I think in the example we use, if you are looking at a family of four for a year, it's roughly $60,000.

Public Safety committee  Entering into the witness protection program offers no one any more protections against any breaches of law.

Public Safety committee  At that point, it would be more a discussion to have with the Correctional Service of Canada.

Public Safety committee  During the process for admission into the program, the risk assessment is done, and the consultation with the family would be included, and—I continually refer back to this—it's the psychological assessment and the case management plans that are done to ensure the success of the

Public Safety committee  I didn't get the question. I'm not hearing.... I apologize.

Public Safety committee  The introduction of the psychologists is relatively new to the program. As we do with all our programs, we continually reassess. As people enter the program, we look at it as the unit entering the program. You are absolutely correct; it could be one of the parents who is the prim

Public Safety committee  That's correct.

Public Safety committee  There are occasions where there are voluntary terminations from the program. However, even during voluntary terminations we meet the individuals to ensure that the decision they are taking to voluntarily terminate is a well-informed decision. They are certainly advised that at an

Public Safety committee  Even if you decide you want out, frankly, it's still there for you.

Public Safety committee  As Greg stated earlier, to answer your question directly, yes.

Public Safety committee  No, there are existing provincial programs that offer protection to people who are testifying in a case within that province. We'll often see the more comprehensive organized crime files that span a number of provinces come to the federal program because it touches a number of di

Public Safety committee  The word “temporary”.... There are provincial witness protection programs that afford a regime for protection of witnesses within the province. Provinces can certainly refer to the federal program. They're two different programs, but there are regimes.

Public Safety committee  There could be a number of different trigger points. The province could decide it's a provincial case and they're referring it to their own program and will deal with the protectee within the confines of their program. Or for some reason they could feel there are intricacies with