Public Safety committee  We have two who are retired law enforcement. They're former police officers. Neither one of them served with the RCMP. The other five come from a mix of other tribunals or social services backgrounds.

Public Safety committee  No, we haven't really had push-back from the RCMP. I mean, the process is well established. It's been in place for 35 years. I know that the union has made its point, but there are also the professional responsibility units that are doing a lot of this work as well. The RCMP does

Public Safety committee  Because public education right now is a “nice to do” as opposed to a mandated activity, it's something that's done off the corner of a desk and only if I have enough resources left. What I'd like to focus on is the fact that we've had some really big successes. When you look at

Public Safety committee  They're not auxiliary; they're reservists. They do. They have all the same powers as a regular member.

Public Safety committee  When they're on duty, absolutely. There are some places in this country, like in Nunavut, where members are given an opportunity to take some time away, so the backfill is covered by reservists. There's a large number of reservists serving up in Nunavut.

Public Safety committee  Most of them are former regular members who have retired and are doing the job as reservists.

Public Safety committee  My colleague here is pulling up the numbers. At 6,000 complaints, if I recall correctly, $23.5 million was the amount we were looking for just for the commission itself. For option two, which was 9,000 complaints, it was $35.9 million, and for 12,000 complaints, it was $45.9 mi

Public Safety committee  The one we were expecting was 9,000. Of course, right now, the numbers we get from CBSA are that they get somewhere between 2,400 and 3,000 complaints. With the fact that there's going to be a public education campaign and the fact that you have an external independent agency, ou

Public Safety committee  That's a fair statement, yes.

Public Safety committee  I would say there probably isn't a month that goes by that I don't see a complaint where I say we should be investigating this ourselves. You heard about the complaint of Mr. Joudrey. That was an absolutely tragic situation that we should have taken on ourselves, but we just didn

Public Safety committee  Yes. That's correct. I have seven investigators.

Public Safety committee  In that case, I think they really need to go through the grievance system. I think that's the approach they should take, supported by the union. That's not to say that the commission can't look into problems within the agency, as it does with the RCMP. However, the commission's m

Public Safety committee  The most important thing to identify will be how many complaints come in. When we submitted our request for funding, we based it on three scenarios: 6,000 complaints, 9,000 complaints and 12,000 complaints. We don't know which amount we will get, but as I said, we asked for more

Public Safety committee  Of course. The last time I was here, I asked that the RCMP commissioner or the president of the agency be required to respond to our reports within six months. Even the Federal Court raised the issue. It was included in the bill, and I think it's very important. We are quite gla

Public Safety committee  We have seven full-time investigators right now. They are employees who work for the commission. We also have a list of people we can reach out to when we need experts to look into certain aspects of policing.