Public Safety committee  From the RCMP's perspective, we would brief up to the national security advisor.

Public Safety committee  That's line by line, so I will turn it over to my chief financial officer.

Public Safety committee  That's a very good question. I think the deputy commissioner, Gilles Michaud, has talked to you. The RCMP's challenge is to figure out how to perform its role of a federal police force. When I'm talking about how we're going to do federal policing in the future I'm saying feder

Public Safety committee  No.

Public Safety committee  We have liaison officers in many of our areas. I would have to ask the federal police to provide the details of where they are and then we can provide that to committee.

Public Safety committee  My forte is police operations on the federal side. I would have to come back to you on that and actually ask my deputy to provide you with the details.

Public Safety committee  Yes, that's correct.

Public Safety committee  That's where you get the integrated approach, where one of our liaison officers would be part of our chain of command. When we know our Prime Minister will be going to a certain area, that is one of the points of contact that we have. That individual not only works with the embas

Public Safety committee  At this point you're asking me to go into [Inaudible-Editor]. I can't be specific.

Public Safety committee  As soon as we'd notice any type of issue, we would then brief up accordingly. We would brief up accordingly as soon as.... [Inaudible] point, as soon as we'd find that there's an issue there, we would brief up.

Public Safety committee  From my best recollection of my briefings, we would brief up when appropriate.

Public Safety committee  That's a very good question. As the minister said, the review covered everything—so programs, staff, and so on. It covered the way the RCMP can play its role of a federal police force. The full review was on the full scale of all our programs in the organization, the best way o

Public Safety committee  The $1.7 million really is to pay for the cost of policing in the communities, whether it be a tripartite agreement or not. It's actually for front-line members on the road who were delivering that service. That funding was not there in the past. It is to pay for that. In some ar

Public Safety committee  No—you're right—that's a broader discussion, and we are more than open to coming back to the committee with some experts on that and have a discussion about that.

Public Safety committee  It's a factor, I think, throughout all of society. It's not just in first nations communities. It's a factor for all society that we should be concerned about.