Public Safety committee  I think you've said it: there are none when it applies to the process of public complaints. There are several parts in the process that belong to the CPC and several parts that belong to the RCMP. The service standards that the CPC imposes, which Mr. McPhail spoke about, are self

Public Safety committee  I think the complement of the commission is roughly 60 FTDs, or full-time equivalent persons. When you're talking about investigators, however, we do have an agreement; we have a standing offer that we put out, so we use external investigators for many of our investigations. With

Public Safety committee  We follow government contracting rules.

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  I'll answer your question. There's just a problem with the translation here. There were 51 commissioner's notices at the beginning of the fiscal year that remained outstanding. I believe Commissioner Paulson spoke to this committee and talked about increasing his effort in that

Public Safety committee  The last one would have been the APEC inquiry conducted by Justice Hughes in Vancouver.

Public Safety committee  That's specifically provided for in the bill, so those are the specified activity reviews that the new commission will be able to undertake.

Public Safety committee  Yes, we have had some long-standing investigations that have taken 10 years or more. They've actively investigated criminality, but as Mr. McPhail says, when you look at the jurisdiction between investigating criminal offences and doing a review of public complaints, it's quite e

Public Safety committee  The reasons would be—

Public Safety committee  Not necessarily. The legislation doesn't say that, but our reports do end up becoming public at times.