Public Safety committee  There are a million things I could say about that, but I'll just make a couple of points. The first thing is that the overall pattern on organized crime is that there are ad hoc efforts to build teams around particular cases. Most of the initiative for those things comes from i

Public Safety committee  What would I do immediately? I suppose what I would do is put pressure on the RCMP to think more seriously about how their new set of strategic priorities in terms of Canada drug operations translates into a strategy for co-operating with the U.S. and other partners. Most of it

Public Safety committee  I think there should be. This is always a difficult thing, especially if your starting place is thinking about counterterrorism and the RCMP in particular sharing intelligence with their American counterparts. Certainly there have been lots of times when this has gone awry and wh

Public Safety committee  I don't do enough comparative research in other places to say definitively that there is this sort of broader trend, but my expectation is that the answer is probably yes. Certainly there has been reallocation of resources into counterterrorism operations throughout the western w

Public Safety committee  Yes, it's the very last sentence, actually. I just want to make the point that in general there was this productive spillover effect in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, when resources that had been sunk into counterterrorism activities spilled over into other areas, such as orga

Public Safety committee  Thanks to the members of the committee for this opportunity to provide input to the committee's ongoing consideration of Canada's national security framework. I'm here in my capacity as the director of the Centre for the Study of Security and Development at Dalhousie—the success