Transport committee  We have considerable discussions ongoing with all of our provincial, territorial, and municipal partners about issues of concern for them in priority-setting for law enforcement for a particular year. At this point in time, drones or UAVs have not come up as a hot button issue.

Transport committee  I don't know if Dave knows of any. We would capture it strictly as a mischief file on the system, and we would have to pull up every single file to see if there had been a specific charge. I don't know of any specifically that would have come up that way, but maybe Dave can com

Transport committee  Yes, we get calls, requests for assistance, or requests for service on files like that. In terms of developing any legislation, I think there are already sections in the Criminal Code for us to be able to charge the individual for doing anything like that. We're working closely

Transport committee  The laws in place, as I said, I think are already sufficient. That's almost like asking if we have a law in place to make sure that someone doesn't take out a gun and commit murder. Everything is already there. It would be almost impossible, short of limiting where you can fly

Transport committee  For us, when we see these sorts of things, they're either intrusions into protected airspace around the airport—those are the kinds of things you hear of in the news—or you might get complaints from the public that there's a drone flying over their backyard or into what you would

Transport committee  In reference to privacy, I believe there were 775 incidents for which we used drones, UAVs, in 2014, which was the last time we ran the stats before coming down. The majority of that time was for accident reconstruction. Again, a fenced-off area—

Transport committee  There really isn't any collection of personal information with drones. If drones are used in any particular investigative file, the information, the video, ends up on the file itself. It would be held the same way any other information is held within the RCMP, complying with all

Transport committee  I'll start the response to that question, and I'll ask Dave to finish off, maybe, and cover off anything I haven't. The typical drones that we're encountering right now are the ones that have 30-minute flight times, the off-the-shelf kind. Although some have a greater payload an

Transport committee  Good morning, Madam Chair. In the same way, I don't know whether you want me to read through these notes or not. We can do the same thing Transport has done, as you have them before you in both official languages. In the interest of time we can answer questions, but I'm prepared

Transport committee  I am Assistant Commissioner Byron Boucher. I oversee contract and aboriginal policing. It's a confusing name for those of you who may not be totally familiar with it if you live in what we call non-contract provinces, like Ontario and Quebec. I oversee operations in provinces t