Official Languages committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would first like to note that many consultations were held before this bill was drafted, and I believe the government has considered the concerns of those who spoke out on the matter. We had an opportunity to react to the white paper and subsequently to t

Public Safety committee  I thought myself that the minister, if he read my report and understood what really needs to be done, would certainly take some kind of action. If I could discover a list of people who weren't obeying the law and were committing these sexual crimes, I'm sure that inside the box

Public Safety committee  Yes, there's that.

Public Safety committee  I just want to add one thing. I didn't think there was the political response that I expected when I prepared the report and made it public. This is why I'm very grateful to you to have me tonight, because I did have at least the opportunity to speak to some members of Parliament

Public Safety committee  Yes, absolutely. I recommended it. I think that, if everyone is subject to an assessment, people will start understanding that it's normal. The second point is that everyone's medical files must absolutely remain confidential. One of the big problems is that the physicians hired

Public Safety committee  I don't know what outside authorities you mean. There's obviously the minister, who must have certain authorities he can exercise over RCMP management, although I don't know what they might be. There's not really any outside organization in place. A committee has been establishe

Public Safety committee  What I said in the report was that some of the women I interviewed, especially those in higher positions, did want me to recommend a royal commission or a commission of inquiry of some type. The reason I only said that this is what they said is because I was restricted to deal on

Public Safety committee  In the case of the big abusers, I was often told by the victims in the police that they also abuse the women they arrest or abuse the people in the homes they search, and things like this. But as you say, these are other instances where they don't obey the law, because they are t

Public Safety committee  There were two doctors, one in Toronto and one in Halifax. In the Halifax case, it was reported to the provincial or municipal police. It was investigated. It did go to the medical society. They did nothing. Basically they said that what they had the right to do and didn't have t

Public Safety committee  It concerns me tremendously, because I think it's not consistent with their role and their function. They should be administering the law, implementing the law, not trying to invent a parallel set of rules that suits them. Not prosecuting real, serious criminal offences destroys

Public Safety committee  No, absolutely. I think we don't have the police we deserve if that's the way they think. It's not only what they're doing, but it's the way they think and the way they approach things that has been [Inaudible--Editor]. As I said, what bothers me is that I know these things have

Public Safety committee  If the government has confidence in the commissioner, which seems to be the case, well then they should support her and they should sit down with her and ask for her plan and see if she has sufficient financing to make it work and support her if she has to make some structural ch

Public Safety committee  I'm saying that the only possibility for her to have success with her plan is to have that kind of support. If the government decides that it's going to depend on her to do it, it has to step in there and support her. If it wants to change things and put in a supervisory committe

Public Safety committee  Federal policing, as I see it, is a specialized job. You need people with more education and more training; who don't move around and change from one function to another; who develop their expertise in one area and build on that; who have leadership; and who have people who can c

Public Safety committee  What I was told is that a lot of the people who work there are not professionally trained in that area. That is one problem. The other problem is that they seem to be subjected to a lot of pressure from different people in management and there are a lot of decisions that are bei