Public Safety committee  Actually, there are two answers to your question. In municipalities like Calgary or Vancouver, it is possible to establish partnerships across the system. But it's a different story in smaller cities: no resources are available for this. Going right back to the first question o

Public Safety committee  You could write a whole report just on this facet. The debate around the implications of mental health issues across the criminal justice system is hot. We discuss it at every venue I sit at. Certainly from a crime prevention perspective, the focus of the crime prevention progr

Public Safety committee  There is ongoing discussion about the first nations policing program and the kinds of investments. I think I would first want to point out that we need to remember that the first nations policing program is designed to add additional policing services on top of what the province

Public Safety committee  Absolutely.

Public Safety committee  I can speak only to the aboriginal policing program that I run. That program was protected under the deficit reduction plan. In the dictatorship of math, there was a $1 million reduction in the program, but frankly, that was nothing in a $120 million program. Essentially that f

Public Safety committee  In fact, my program has not been cut through the deficit reduction exercise and whatnot. In fact, the national centre was protected against cuts, for the very reason that we want to maintain those programs. Since 2008, in fact, up until last year, we're actually getting more mone

Public Safety committee  It's always the danger in talking about data from a Canadian perspective and throwing out those averages, because they don't really tell the whole story about what's going on in the north or what's going on in remote communities on the prairies. Indeed we are trying to understand

Public Safety committee  On the crime prevention side, I think we're actually very close to that collaborative goal. We work extremely closely with the provinces and municipalities to first of all ensure that we're not duplicating our investments. The one thing we want to avoid, with limited money across

Public Safety committee  If I may, just from the community safety perspective, if you look at that broader spectrum and go beyond a policing lens when you look at crime prevention and activities that we can pursue in the community to create safer communities, we actually are starting to build a very good

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. All of my comments are simply add-ons to Mr. Potter's. I will focus on matters related to aboriginal people. My branch is responsible for the management of the First Nations Policing Program which provides funding towards policing services that are prof