Public Safety committee  Yes, we do keep those statistics. I must put a caveat, though, that the statistics are based on self-identification. If somebody doesn't self-identify, then we don't have those statistics. Right now in the RCMP, when we talk about the sworn police officers, 78% are male and 21%

Public Safety committee  During my time as commissioner, that has been a huge priority for me. We have 15 commanding officers of each province or division. When I arrived, for example, there was one female commanding officer, and now seven of the 15 are female. In our senior executive committee...because

Public Safety committee  Actually, it was surprising when I heard the statistics for complaints. We get, on average, about 2,250 to 2,300 complaints a year, and it actually has gone down. In 2018-19, it was 2,317 and in 2019-20 is 2,286. Just to give you some context, when you make the complaint, the C

Public Safety committee  Those were a lot of numbers. Sorry.

Public Safety committee  If this moment in time isn't a wake-up call, then shame on everybody, including the RCMP. When I said I struggled with the definition of systemic racism, it wasn't a disacknowledgement of it. When we look at the systems and processes in place.... When I became commissioner, the f

Public Safety committee  When I think of defunding, I think more about funding all social services. Having policed in the north myself, I know that in many communities there is no addictions counselling. There are no mental health crisis centres. In times of crisis, we are the first response. Even if the

Public Safety committee  I don't call it changing my mind. When I talked about systemic racism I kept thinking of all the things...I wasn't looking at it from a historical point of view, I was looking at it through today's lens and thinking about all the things that we have done to eliminate it, and the

Public Safety committee  Any RCMP member who does not live up to our core values will be held to account, point, final, no question. We have obviously a range of disciplinary measures from operational guidance to dismissal. We need to look at hiring the right person, training them properly to be empathe

Public Safety committee  When I got into the chair as commissioner, I introduced Vision 150, and that's our road to the 150th anniversary in 2023. The focus was based on people within the RCMP and community. The premise was that if we focus on our people, we'll have better operations and a safer Canada.

Public Safety committee  They started that investigation in 2016, and we received the report at the end of January 2020. They put a lot of thought into that report and into that investigation, and it is very important that we do the same when we look at those recommendations. I personally have read the

Public Safety committee  The report is no longer with the RCMP. It's with the CRCC. We are finished. We have done our review, and the CRCC got it a couple of weeks ago.

Public Safety committee  There are a lot of recommendations in that report. Again, that report was investigated over six years. There were two or three terabytes of information that had to be reviewed, and we wanted to make sure that we did the proper review, because people deserve that.

Public Safety committee  I can say that in our response to the indigenous protests in northern B.C. there was no use of force with people. People were arrested.

Public Safety committee  The work we did with that community and in connecting with the hereditary chiefs was unprecedented, and we had actually lots of discussion, and operationally it was a success.

Public Safety committee  When we use certain types of resources—for example, when we have public order individuals—they are unarmed. They have no arming, but just in case something happens or goes sideways, they need to be protected, so they have what's called armed overwatch—