Public Safety committee  No, I was not consulted on this bill, but I was involved in discussions during the development of the previous one. One might say it was a consultation, but I was not involved with this one.

Public Safety committee  The bill does not explicitly discuss one problem or another. It is a way of giving means and tools to management that will allow it to solve a whole series of problems, including the ones you just raised. No part of the bill covers one problem or another explicitly.

Public Safety committee  I agree with you. That was well-documented: there is an internal culture problem, and a big one, that needs to be changed. However, I don't see why it should explicitly be addressed in the bill itself. It might be relevant in a particular context, but here again, I don't see why

Public Safety committee  No, I don't think so. It depends how you define those categories. We must remember that the federal public service employer is Treasury Board. We must also remember that some of the employees of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are employees of Treasury Board. I am not sure I

Public Safety committee  The audit is limited to ensuring that the laws, policies, and directives in place are abided by when these cases are resolved. One of the concerns raised in committee was that some components of that system of directives, regulations, etc. were such that it was very difficult. So

Public Safety committee  Our reports are made public. For us, the tool to ensure that the organization is moving forward in the right direction is transparency. We also make additional recommendations, as I said, on a yearly basis, to the commissioner and the comptroller genera, if we feel that there is

Public Safety committee  In fact, I am here to answer questions concerning the bill. It constitutes a recipe for solving a good number of these problems. In the area of labour relations, one of the important risks is related to the perception of the RCMP by the general public. If negative perception is a

Public Safety committee  In my opinion, it will reassure Canadians, as they will know that there are mechanisms within the organization to deal with behaviour problems.

Public Safety committee  Is the bill perfect? Will it solve all of the problems in the RCMP? No, I don't think so. However, I think it constitutes a major improvement. With regard to the decision-making powers given to the commissioner, I have worked in the federal system for several years and I was abl

Public Safety committee  At a high level the audit committee would not involve itself in a transaction or a specific case, but it would want to ensure there were mechanisms in place to deal with each one of the problems.

Public Safety committee  Yes. The role of the external audit committee is to ensure that all of the studies and internal audit reports produced by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police comply with the applicable standards. We must also ensure that we have a risk-focused audit plan in place for the next few y

Public Safety committee  There are three of us, but the analytical work that supports our reports is done by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police internal audit group.

Public Safety committee  In fact, we review the work done by those analysts and we ensure that their conclusions are correct.

Public Safety committee  Correct. We also have to review management action plans following problems that we note, or problems that are raised by the Auditor General. We discuss those action plans and review them, positively or negatively. We want to know if they duly take into account the problems that w

Public Safety committee  There were several, in various programs. This is the same as in any other organization. With regard to the organization as a whole, we have found over the years that the management of human resources is one aspect that is a bit more awkward and where there is room for improvement