Public Safety committee  Absolutely. What I can say is that funding.... We've never been funded fully in our budget to be at 40 troops. It's always been at about 18, so every year we need a top-up to get to 40. Regarding your question on vacancy rates, we have had an unprecedented lower vacancy rate, w

Public Safety committee  The way we process resources is that, absolutely, it's the province that decides how many resources they can afford. It's not Ottawa-centric, by any means. When a province can afford certain amounts of additional resources, it will make that request to Ottawa and we will fill tha

Public Safety committee  They absolutely do.

Public Safety committee  Yes, absolutely.

Public Safety committee  The cadets who go into the training academy are for the contract policing environment. As I said, the cadets will come in. They choose where they want to go. We try to accommodate that. However, as for how many resources we can send back to each province, it is dependent on the

Public Safety committee  Thank you. Since I've been in the chair, we've actually introduced, first and foremost, the “blanket exercise” to cadets at Depot. It gives them the history of indigenous cultures and provides the impacts of their actions so that when they go out in the field, they can know what

Public Safety committee  I can't emphasize enough the importance of such a review. It's actually we who asked the CRCC to do the review, and not the reverse. It was only because we wanted to be as transparent as we could. The CRCC has done extensive research and a great job on the review. We need to giv

Public Safety committee  I could probably speak to that because we've talked about having that partnership. Actually, I've created a lived indigenous advisory group with retired and current members of the RCMP. One of their suggestions was that maybe people could take the course before they come into the

Public Safety committee  This is news to me, but it possibly could be because when we brought in gender committees, many of the people on the diversity committee and the gender and harassment committee.... There was a meld of those. We created the gender and harassment committees, which include diversity

Public Safety committee  I will follow up.

Public Safety committee  I did mention, first of all, the blanket exercise that we brought in; when I was the commanding officer, I attended the first one with the cadets. An elder comes in and leads that session. We have a specific room that was there before, an indigenous reflection room for members, a

Public Safety committee  I don't have that information in front of me. That particular lawsuit is very new in the sense that I don't even believe it's been certified yet.

Public Safety committee  Yes, as the minister said, before when we took that data—it was to be bias-free—they said you couldn't collect that data. Now we're looking at it and saying that to be more effective and to bring on the change that's needed to combat the racism, we may have to look at starting to

Public Safety committee  Yes. Absolutely.

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. With me is Dennis Daley, assistant commissioner with contract and indigenous policing. On the screen is Gail Johnson, our fairly new—eight months, probably—chief human resources officer. Good evening. Thank you for the invitation to speak on these critic