Health committee  We are starting to look into trying to get, for instance, names of victims, because obviously there are names of victims in the civil proceedings.

Health committee  In a letter that I received from MP Davies, I noticed that he made mention of names of victims and defendants. With privacy issues, I'm not sure whether we're even allowed to have those lists, but of course, if we were allowed to have them, that would definitely be a starting poi

Health committee  The only law we have to rely on is aggravated assault. With aggravated assault, the Criminal Code says, “Every one commits an aggravated assault who wounds, maims, disfigures or endangers the life of the complainant.” Each situation would depend on the circumstances.

Health committee  On the way here, I honestly thought about whether I even had an opinion about that. I'm not sure I do. I just think, right now, with the RCMP, we work within the laws of the Criminal Code that we have.

Health committee  It's not a question of local police or RCMP. It's a question of police of jurisdiction. It's always where the event took place. If an event took place in, for instance, as we have spoken about, a Saskatoon hospital, the Saskatoon city police would be the police of jurisdiction.

Health committee  We actually looked into it a few months ago when I received a letter from MP Don Davies. We solicited the assistance of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police as well. Definitely, as I said, we went back and we don't have any cases that came forward that weren't investigate

Health committee  Perhaps I should be more specific. When we go back into our records, we can go back only so far. Certain things are purged along the way, according to our archived records management system, so the looking back is looking at anything in the electronic world. We tried various keyw

Health committee  It depends on the circumstances, of course. We don't have, in the Criminal Code, anything that deals directly with forced sterilization. The law that we use is aggravated assault, or there are other kinds of criminality, depending on what the victim brings forward in their statem

Health committee  It's difficult to answer that question. When it was brought to my attention as the commissioner, of course we did all the searches and we also reviewed the report from the Saskatoon regional health authority. There's more work to be done, though. I notice that at one point—I thi

Health committee  I think it varies and it varies in all agencies. That's the reason we have a big focus on reconciliation. Of course, there are various reports that have come out. We always look at things that we can do better. It depends on the community. If you go to certain communities, trust

Health committee  Thanks.

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and members of this committee. Ladies and gentlemen, thanks for inviting me here to speak today. I want to start by saying the RCMP takes all reported allegations of criminal activity and incidents very seriously and we are commi

Public Accounts committee  Those are great questions. We're just over 20,000. I don't have the exact number. We are continuing to put through 40 troops per year at the RCMP academy, which translates into about 1,200 new graduates per year with the attrition. We've been working hard at our vacancy rates,

Public Accounts committee  It affects the numbers when we count, as Deputy Commissioner Brennan alluded to, because they are operational members, but they're just not at work at that snapshot in time. That's one way it affects us, but obviously, there is a lot of planning that has to come into effect when

Public Accounts committee  We could easily say, for example, that we only require 75% to qualify, but we want everybody to qualify. The reality is that, at any given time, the OAG could come in. We will never have 100%. That is the reality, and it's a reality for all police agencies because it's a snapsho