Public Safety committee  Well, I think strong sentencing, which goes to challenges that we have within Canada's legal system, and the appearance, if you will, of a revolving door.... Whether that comes from a lack of pretrial custody beds, or whether that comes from a lack of Crown counsels being able to

Public Safety committee  I think that if you were to ask the average Canadian, as we are hearing a lot in our tours in Alberta, looking at the provincial policing services, a lot of Albertans would say with respect to rural crime that we need to fix our legal system, however that looks, versus talking ab

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Ms. Michaud. I apologize, I prepared my testimony in English. Therefore, all the answers that spring to mind are in English. To avoid the bastardization of the French language, I will answer in English. The idea behind a national operational investigative program fo

Public Safety committee  I realize that this could be considered ironic because you have a labour union here that's asking for more members. One of the challenges that we see in gun crime in Canada is actual coordination. As an evidence-based union, we try to bring forth positions that are based in evide

Public Safety committee  I think that would be a best practice. Perhaps before firearms are sent for destruction, they should be recorded. They should not necessarily be traced, but perhaps recorded and test-fired and all of that great stuff. I realize that now I'm making a suggestion that increases th

Public Safety committee  Thank you. That's actually a good question. What is rarely spoken about in law enforcement public proceedings is that our members serve in some of the most isolated posts in Canada. Sometimes they are the only representatives of the Government of Canada in those communities. Ev

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and committee members, for inviting us to appear today. I'm Brian Sauvé, president of the National Police Federation. We're the sole certified bargaining agent representing close to 20,000 members of the RCMP below the rank of inspector. The past two years

Human Resources committee  Yes. In Ontario, the OPP in smaller rural jurisdictions—similar to the RCMP in other rural jurisdictions in many other provinces—is facing very similar labour and recruitment challenges, which, in the grand scheme, results in challenges from work-life balance to burnout. It's on

Human Resources committee  Thank you, that is a good question. To be 100% accurate, I will answer in English. When we talk about applicants and attrition, the attrition rate at Depot, once the applicant has been accepted to go to Regina, has grown exponentially over the last number of years to almost 30%

Human Resources committee  Yes, we'll do that, no problem. Thank you.

Human Resources committee  Thank you for the question. It's actually a very good place to start a big discussion. A lot has been done in the last decade with respect to police and studying work-life balance and the impacts of overburdening. I think recognition through CIMVHR and CIPSRT and the studies tha

Human Resources committee  That's an excellent question, and I agree. If you go back to early 2020, there was broad public discussion around de-funding or de-tasking the police, which really, from our perspective, has been from Canadians who are asking for a re-funding of other social programs because they

Justice committee  Good afternoon. Thank you for inviting me to appear today. I'm Brian Sauvé, a sergeant in the RCMP and current president of the National Police Federation, which is the certified bargaining agent representing close to 20,000 members of the RCMP. I'd like to begin by acknowledg

Justice committee  Thank you for the question. I am familiar with the position they have lobbied you on. Essentially, what we're talking about is that we entrust police officers with a lot of power and authority in Canada. Section 25 of the Criminal Code gives them essentially the ability to take a

Justice committee  I think we have to delineate the two. On the one hand, we're talking about police officers who are trained and highly regulated within their use of force continuum, and we're talking about specifics—and they are rare—where a police officer may get convicted or charged for a use