Public Safety committee  It depends on our resources, of course. It's a pretty long list. We have about 20 investigators we can hire as contractors, if we have the funding.

Public Safety committee  I also watched Mr. Sauvé's testimony, and I think that I fall somewhere in the middle there. I currently have this authority. I can initiate an investigation at any time. I have that authority as the chairperson. What the commission needs is additional resources to be able to d

Public Safety committee  Yes, there's no issue with our doing that. We already have that data available right now.

Public Safety committee  Absolutely. I think that's really important. We need to look at all the intersectionalities as opposed to just race-based data.

Public Safety committee  Yes, that's correct.

Public Safety committee  I'll use the Colton Boushie case as an example. We conducted a major investigation into his death. His uncle, Alvin Baptiste, submitted a complaint to the RCMP first, but he wasn't satisfied with the outcome of the RCMP's investigation into the complaint, so he requested that the

Public Safety committee  Yes, but I'm referring to what we have done in the past. When we receive public complaints, we make recommendations with respect to supervision, so it's not just the individual who's on the ground. We will make recommendations with respect to the supervisory capacity. Of late, t

Public Safety committee  I think this is an issue the government really has to look at. Right now, when a Canadian has an interaction with a member of the RCMP, they have no way of knowing if they're a reservist or a regular member. Every individual has the same authorities when it comes to use of force,

Public Safety committee  Right now, I don't have any investigators on my team who are Inuit, but we can certainly make use of contract resources to do that. The commission has used contract resources in the past for complaint investigations.

Public Safety committee  I refer to systemic reviews as our opportunity to fix policing before the police officer walks out the door. That's how I see them. We deal with large systemic issues. I refer back to the commission's report on personal searches and strip searches. We made some seminal recommenda

Public Safety committee  Do you mean on average using my own resources?

Public Safety committee  It depends, obviously, on the complexity of the complaint. When we looked at Boushie, the time to get the report to the commissioner was around 20 months. It was a very complex investigation.

Public Safety committee  For a standard complaint, you're looking at six to 12 months.

Public Safety committee  At the commission right now, we're sitting with between 85 and 90 staff. We have a lot of students right now for the summer. Our staff consists of lawyers, investigators, policy officers, communications analysts and our administrative staff.

Public Safety committee  We recently were given program integrity funding, so my budget is sitting at around $15.2 million.