Health committee  I will ask all of you this. In your opinion, if no one has been charged anywhere in this country and yet we know it has been going on since the 1970s, does Canadian society really care?

Health committee  I have one very short question. Alisa, you mentioned that documents had been destroyed for 10 years. Are they still being destroyed today?

Health committee  I'd like to table a motion. I looked at the next meeting we have. I noticed that the RCMP are not coming. I'm a little concerned about that. Therefore, I move: That, in relation to the study of forced sterilization of women in Canada, the Commissioner of the RCMP, Brenda Luck

Health committee  A number of issues have been raised concerning how we charge people and how the justice system works. She's the top police officer in this country, so I think she can offer some suggestions. Maybe she has changes or maybe she knows how the system works properly, why charges haven

Health committee  Thank you very much, Commissioner, for coming here today. I really appreciate the opportunity to be able to question you on these very serious allegations concerning forced sterilization of women, especially indigenous women, in Canada. Obviously, you said that no complaint has

Health committee  Is there a statute of limitations on the sterilization of women? If someone came forward and said they had a complaint, would you be able to say, “That happened 20 years ago, five years ago, 10 years ago”, or another number, and say, “We can't investigate”?

Health committee  Obviously this has been in the media for a number of years now. It's been out there. If the allegations that are being debated in society are false, I believe that deserves to be investigated. If those allegations are true, that deserves to be investigated. One, if they're false,

Health committee  What is the level of trust right now between indigenous peoples and the RCMP in Canada? Have you been keeping statistics on that and understanding surveys about that? Obviously that's a very important consideration. If someone's not willing to make a complaint, why are they not w

Health committee  You obviously are trying to build a relationship with indigenous communities, but the history of the RCMP was one also of suppression of indigenous peoples.

Health committee  That's a point of view. Genocide is one of the things that has come up in the last little bit and this is a very serious accusation. Obviously you have a very important role in the maintenance of law and order and the protection of human rights. Do you believe the RCMP should b

Health committee  If someone who is a third party made a complaint, would you accept that as a way of moving an investigation forward?

Health committee  For instance, if this committee asked you to investigate this in a more in-depth way, would you then start investigating or would we wait for someone else to come forward?

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  Thank you very much.

Health committee  I was just wondering how the RCMP would balance this out between criminal investigations and the professional obligations of professional bodies, such as the college of physicians, which also has to conduct investigations and regulate its members. Is there a difference? How do th