Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, everyone. I appreciate this opportunity to appear before you today. It's a pleasure to be here. By way of introduction, my name is Bryan Larkin. I'm the serving chief of the Waterloo Regional Police Service. I've been a police officer for

Public Safety committee  Yes, absolutely. The CACP and in fact all chiefs across Canada applaud that inclusion, because it really integrates the whole process to safe communities and the well-being of communities. It takes the issue of social determinants of health, which policing is looking at significa

Public Safety committee  Yes, to a certain extent. I think you have to take it in context. I think there are some myths, and I think there are misconceptions. That is the importance of the localized discussion; the important piece of this is when you drill this down. In Canada, we're looking at two publi

Public Safety committee  Yes. The CACP is in support of the legislation.

Public Safety committee  I listened to the witness testimony and certainly understand some of the concerns, but I can't think of anything off the top of my head. I think it's a discussion. One of the lessons we learned, if I can use the harm reduction strategy, was around methadone clinics. I think polic

Public Safety committee  Sure.

Public Safety committee  Well, yes, the Canadian chiefs are supportive of Bill C-2 if it meets the 27—

Public Safety committee  Yes, this is part of the process here. If the Minister of Health...and it meets the localized piece, police chiefs are saying that there is value to trying this and experimenting with it. I think that's the thrust.

Public Safety committee  That's a complex question. From a chief's perspective, yes and no. I guess there's an easy way out there, with some neutrality, but there are aspects that, yes, we believe it does meet, and other aspects that we still have concerns about. I think our position is very clear. Thi

Public Safety committee  No. Those are localized issues, and in terms of the responsibility for those, from the chief's perspective, really they are funded either provincially or municipally, and hence the regulations and the pieces that work within that should be within that framework. This is a signi

Public Safety committee  I'll speak specifically on the policing perspective around whether or not a chief would feel it would be intrusive, because that's the area I represent. The reality is that oversight and accountability are all parts of what we deal with. In short, no, I don't think there's an el

Public Safety committee  Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Mr. Chair and members of the distinguished committee, as a member of the board of directors of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, it's a privilege to be here on behalf of our president, Chief Adam Palmer of the Vancouver Police De

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Paul-Hus, and thank you for your comments. The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police absolutely supports higher education and higher learning. Although policing and the ability to become a police officer are embedded in provincial legislation, we do

Public Safety committee  We've seen in Canada a modernization of the police services that provide policing to our communities. Many police services across our country have gone through a civilianization and/or civilian professional modernization. Many services have been looking within our organizations a

Public Safety committee  It varies from province to province. As all of our members are aware, policing and the actual provincial legislation fall under provincial governments, so it does vary, but very much so we have national standards. There is a national use-of-force framework that all police service