Public Safety committee  I think that is fair.

Public Safety committee  No, we are not operating under that definition, because we don't have to operate under it. What I said—

Public Safety committee  What I said is that in going back and looking at the cases—the complaints we've had—we believe that there are five or six of them—

Public Safety committee  As I mentioned in answer to one of the other questions, we have very broad powers to receive information that we need, and internally we have both the capacity and the security classifications that would allow us to do the work that we need to do with that information.

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  Yes, that is our position. We are saying that in the eventuality that NSIRA were to determine that no, it wasn't and there were dimensions of that which were related to the conduct of an RCMP member, they would send it back.

Public Safety committee  No.

Public Safety committee  There would probably be many ways to get the same result. The most straightforward way is definitely in the act and enables the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency to refer the complaint to us if it determined that national security was not involved.

Public Safety committee  That is why I was saying that there are probably other ways to get the same results.

Public Safety committee  That's a very good question. Our practice is not to conduct an investigation if we determine that, by doing so, we would harm an investigation or another ongoing activity. We try to respect that consistently.

Public Safety committee  No.

Public Safety committee  The modalities of the consultation are something we will have to work out with the new agency. We have an objective in mind, which is to ensure that we respect the intent, both the spirit and the letter of the new law, which says to us, “You are not to do this. You are to send it

Public Safety committee  I just want to remind you that the commission does not concern itself with crimes. When a crime is committed, and a victim feels that the RCMP or one of its members misused it powers, a complaint should be sent to us.

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  No. Before this legislation, we would—