Public Safety committee  Thank you. Just expanding on that, how are you finding your group being recognized by international communities?

Public Safety committee  Why do you have to break it down? Why can't it just be “diverse”?

Public Safety committee  Thank you, and my thanks to both the witnesses. In my past experience as an RCMP officer for 35 years, I think the majority of the membership would appreciate this committee, but I do have some concerns. The mandate of the board would be to advise the commissioner of the RCMP on

Public Safety committee  But the expertise is only as good as the support that that expertise gets if they pass the information on. I remember that when I was in a force, we were always within the top three salary-wise in Canada. Things drastically changed over the years, and now we're somewhere around 5

Public Safety committee  That's my main concern. I just wanted to hear it from you. I guess we have to wait to see what takes place.

Public Safety committee  I want to mention here on the record that one of the biggest problems facing the RCMP over the last 20 years has been funding and keeping up the resources to the level that they think they should be. They can't do that, though, because they don't have that funding. It all comes d

Public Safety committee  I'd rather deal with the questioning and come back to deal with the amendments on another day. Otherwise, we are being loaded down with everything again in a short period of time.

Public Safety committee  Am I out of time?

Public Safety committee  If the record were automatically gone for everybody who had simple possession, wouldn't the word get out on the street that your record's gone? I have a very difficult time understanding your trying to contact these individuals with a notification that they now don't have a crimi

Public Safety committee  Thank you to both witnesses for being here today. I would like to start with you, sir. You just mentioned that you can go back and check. We've had witnesses here, department officials, who told us the other day, when we were talking about how to deal with those people who might

Public Safety committee  Ms. Finestone.

Public Safety committee  I move that we accept the report of the subcommittee.

Public Safety committee  I'm just trying to co-operate with you and be part of the team.

Public Safety committee  A properly produced program with the proper agencies working on it would be able to do that.

Public Safety committee  Thank you. Tom, just to let you know, it's $25 for a check in your city and $25 if they want to add a fingerprint check. Ottawa is $42 for a criminal check, $99 if you want fingerprints and $139 if you're a company.