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Public Safety committee That's correct.
May 8th, 2019Committee meeting
Randall Koops
Public Safety committee That is a discussion between the commissioner and the board and the commissioner and the minister. What the government has proposed is that rather than create a board that has decision-making or directive power over the commissioner—
May 8th, 2019Committee meeting
Randall Koops
Public Safety committee —it has given the commissioner of the RCMP, in her mandate letter, a very clear mandate to lead transformation of the RCMP—
May 8th, 2019Committee meeting
Randall Koops
Public Safety committee —and then to equip her with the tools to support her in doing that.
May 8th, 2019Committee meeting
Randall Koops
Public Safety committee The board's mandate is not to fix those issues. The board's mandate is to give expert advice to the commissioner in her mandate to fix those issues.
May 8th, 2019Committee meeting
Randall Koops
Public Safety committee That's the choice the government of the day has made, to give that mandate very clearly to the commissioner and then to support her with tools to deliver on the mandate, rather than at this point upset or alter the existing relationships—
May 8th, 2019Committee meeting
Randall Koops
Public Safety committee —in relation to who is the employer and who has financial authorities, etc.
May 8th, 2019Committee meeting
Randall Koops
Public Safety committee As we said, the benefit comes to the commissioner in having a broader set of experts who can help her with very complex issues about a very complex national organization.
May 8th, 2019Committee meeting
Randall Koops
Public Safety committee Of course you do.
May 8th, 2019Committee meeting
Randall Koops
Public Safety committee Very much so. Mr. Goodale has spoken publicly about the process under way to find the composition of a board that does those very things.
May 8th, 2019Committee meeting
Randall Koops
Public Safety committee Or, in the third scenario, the Minister of Public Safety requests or directs the commissioner of the RCMP to seek the view of the management advisory committee.
May 8th, 2019Committee meeting
Randall Koops
Public Safety committee Correct.
May 8th, 2019Committee meeting
Randall Koops
Public Safety committee The answer is no, because the board's goal is to make recommendations to the commissioner, not to have a public role. It's not involved in the administration of a statute. It is not a review body. Parliament is not delegating to it the responsibility to administer a statute or c
May 8th, 2019Committee meeting
Randall Koops
Public Safety committee That's right.
May 8th, 2019Committee meeting
Randall Koops
Public Safety committee No. Nothing here would change the role of what's proposed in the following bill, or vice versa.
May 8th, 2019Committee meeting
Randall Koops