Public Safety committee  I've done informal resolutions in private practice,as a lawyer, with municipal police departments, and I've been involved in informal resolutions in the RCMP. The key component of this, really, is the fact that there's protection for conversations between the parties, the compl

Public Safety committee  Presently you can resolve pretty much anything, if the parties are in agreement and there isn't a mandatory review by the CRCC or there will be.

Public Safety committee  Yes, through regulations.

Public Safety committee  I originally was the senior special adviser to the legislative reform initiative, so I had participation in this. While it's correct to say that the staff relations representatives were not consulted in the drafting component of it, because of the unique way it unfolded, where

Public Safety committee  The CRCC itself would not have jurisdiction over the investigation of a serious incident. That would be held as described by Public Safety, by the specialized agency that exists in the province, by another police force. If it were undertaken by the RCMP, in what would likely be v

Public Safety committee  We have some nominal draft measures that we have created within the legislative reform initiative that Superintendent O'Rielly is running. We will take those to the stakeholders and ask if there is anything that they could add or take away. I can reflect on what Marin said. You

Public Safety committee  The commissioner can certainly have the ability to create rules around investigations and timelines. We've talked about that. There are people who would say not to have timelines, because you always get in trouble, and others would say to have very specific and tight timelines. I

Public Safety committee  I think there is some cost-effectiveness to it, but I also think there's an important component of creating through that the ability to have public confidence and stakeholder-contract partner confidence in the process as well. To be clear on it, the public complaint will still ex

Public Safety committee  Yes, there is something about that. When a public complaints is involved, you have to inform the CRCC. I think there's an ability for them to say what things might not be subject to informal resolution or early resolution. I could look, but I don't want to take up your time doi

Public Safety committee  Yes, I would say it's moving forward, and it's been trying to move forward for a number of years in terms of better workplace relations and having policies in place. But policies aren't that meaningful—which would be the follow-up question—when nothing is seen to be happening a

Public Safety committee  I'm not sure what it would contribute, because the minute you enshrine it in the legislative piece, that's what you have. I'm not quite sure how you're thinking of crafting that, but I would rather have the ability to say that it's the responsibility of the commissioner, Treasury

Public Safety committee  Having a criminal record does not necessarily mean you won't be hired, because if there's a pardon in process, it would go to the character of the individual and whether you could hire them. I'm giving you an evasive answer to the extent that I know we've hired people who may i

Public Safety committee  In our formal discipline process, which is where you go before a board, because we have what I'll call prosecutors and defence counsel—we have different terms for them—they have access to a database that contains all of our decisions. They can search for a term such as “impaired

Public Safety committee  I agree with that comment from the perspective that I've worked in British Columbia as counsel representing municipal police officers, and they have the same issues that the RCMP has. I wouldn't have such a bright line to say that they respond to their internal cases much differe

Public Safety committee  It has probably become clear that I like the view that you build your framework and then you consult with your stakeholders and build the details. The code of conduct can have a very specific statement when it's developed to talk about harassment. There's no question it can deal