Public Safety committee  I mentioned earlier that the Speakers of both chambers and the RCMP are currently reviewing the selection process for the new director of the Parliamentary Protective Services. That's the first step. In the meantime, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the protective services o

Public Safety committee  Thank you for your question. I echo your comments about the professionalism of the RCMP. Any operational organization involved in operations will be well served after any such incident, any operation that requires a very high level of implication for many people, to do post-actio

Public Safety committee  We have looked at some provincial jurisdictions and it varies in terms of their approach. If you take for example the Province of Quebec or the Province of Ontario where they have provincial police services, or if you look at other provinces who have the RCMP under contract provi

Public Safety committee  Thank you. The bill stems directly from the adoption of motions by both chambers. As you know — and your colleague mentioned it earlier — the House of Commons and the Senate motions speak very clearly of asking the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to take on this responsibility wit

Public Safety committee  As we mentioned, given that the Speakers of both chambers will be responsible for the service, the director of the Parliamentary Protective Service will report hierarchically to the two Speakers, who will be responsible for determining how they want the privileges to be exercised

Public Safety committee  One of the interesting challenges for our colleagues in the Senate, the House, and when the new director of the parliamentary protective service will be nominated, will be to determine how best to organize themselves in order to tackle those challenges. To answer your question a

Public Safety committee  It is definitely on the radar screen.

Public Safety committee  We have looked at some other jurisdictions, obviously mostly with the Westminster parliament model, Australia and the U.K. We found that even though there were interesting elements to consider, it was really important to have a made-in-Canada solution, with the very specific natu

Public Safety committee  If I may, my direct boss, the national security adviser to the Prime Minister, also appears on his own without the minister, in this case the Prime Minister. I'm not sure if it's more or less common in other departments, but it happens from time to time.

Public Safety committee  First, it's a difficult question to go in retrospect and speculate in terms of what would have happened. Second, as you've seen in media reports, a number of reviews are being finalized as we speak. The Ontario police service is doing two reviews and the RCMP has done internal

Public Safety committee  I understand your initial comments, but really this bill is in response to the will expressed by both chambers in the motions. I take your point from your initial comments, but the government responded to the motions in preparing this bill. The House of Commons and the Senate ha

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much for your question. As you said, the events of October 22 were definitely tragic. We also saw on that day the dedication and the professionalism of the law enforcement and security personnel throughout the different phases of the operation during the day. Fir

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much. I would like to thank the chair and committee members for the opportunity to speak today about division 10 of part 3 of Bill C-59. This division proposes amendments to the Parliament of Canada Act in order to establish the parliamentary protective service.