Public Safety committee  The funding that's been attributed to this particular bill is actually not just for the PCRC. There is also funding that is going to CBSA, as well as to NSIRA. What I will tell you is that the total amount of funding that is being given for this bill is less than what we submitte

Public Safety committee  What I would share with you is that right now, about 90% of public complaints are made to the commission. There was a point in time when it was about 60%, and 40% were going to the detachments. Now the majority of public complaints are made to the commission. When a complaint co

Public Safety committee  With additional funding, I would like to be able to take on more investigations myself, absolutely.

Public Safety committee  The commission in the past did a specified activity review on harassment in the RCMP, so we have done that—

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning, and thank you for this opportunity to speak to you today. Bill C‑20 will expand the mandate of the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission—or the CRCC—to include not just the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, or RCMP, but also the Canada Bord

Public Safety committee  We don't have a category for racially based complaints, but we do routinely make findings and recommendations in our reports that speak to the importance of cultural sensitivity within indigenous populations.

Public Safety committee  No it is not, but it doesn't mean that we wouldn't address the issue.

Public Safety committee  Yes, you're correct. The Privacy Act is the main reason why we do not do that, but if you go to our website, you will notice that we have begun to publish summaries of the complaints that we have received. We are going to continue doing that, going forward, to increase the transp

Public Safety committee  Yes, as you point out, we have done translation into many different languages. The best way that we can make the system more accessible is through increased public education and outreach. You are correct that when you look at that flow chart on our website, it can be highly confu

Public Safety committee  I think your idea is definitely worthy of consideration. There's no doubt that we need to do greater consultation. The other thing I need to highlight as well is that our process is a remedial process. Really, the focus is on identifying issues with policies, procedures and tra

Public Safety committee  The commission does have agreements in place with the translation bureau, where if an individual wishes to make a complaint and we do not have access to the individual's mother tongue, we do three-way calls with the translation bureau, between our intake officer and the individua

Public Safety committee  No, I'm not at all making that conclusion. As I indicated in my remarks, one thing the commission has noted is that indigenous people do not make use of the public complaints system. That is an issue for us that we need to work on. The best way to work on it is through better pub

Public Safety committee  I'll be able to provide you with those statistics afterwards. I don't have them at my fingertips right now. I can tell you that the commission is very diverse. In terms of gender balance, we're approximately 55% women, as a matter of fact, here at the commission, and we have a

Public Safety committee  On the commission right now in terms of policing, we do have some staff members who are former police officers. I must point out our role, though. We are civilian oversight. We take that very seriously. The most important thing from a staff perspective is that the staff of the co

Public Safety committee  I believe there would be value in having a member of the commission who is indigenous—and just to clarify, we're called members, not commissioners. I also believe, yes, we would be strengthened by having indigenous investigators. That said, my investigative team at the commissi