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 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  I would agree with you. Resources are sorely lacking. It's really part of a broader discussion. We're talking here about Canada's social safety network, with the police being the last first responders standing. We should be having a discussion on it. How big a social safety netwo

Public Safety committee  Thank you for the question. It's a really good one. I don't think you would speak to any police association leader out there today who would talk about having adequate resources, whether it would be Vancouver, Calgary or the OPP. Recently, the OPP published a report that said the

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  Certainly. Our challenge with the buyback program is that, once again, it's increasing the mandate of an overstretched police service that doesn't have enough boots on the ground to do what it's doing today. As far as eliminating gun crime in Canada is concerned, that's the $64

Public Safety committee  When doing some research on this before we created our position statement two years on gun violence in Canada, I haven't heard of any challenges of inter-agency co-operation, whether it be with municipal or provincial police services, the CBSA, or even Corrections Canada. However

Public Safety committee  With only about 30 seconds to answer a 30-day question, that's a difficult one. Honestly, at the moment, I spoke earlier about resources. We have some excellent provincial-municipal partnerships with the CBSA, but resources are the big thing. I think you're hearing that across

Public Safety committee  Yes. I mentioned the Surrey RCMP “Shattering the Image” program. Obviously, there are a number of them. One of the other ones is the end gang life program of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit in British Columbia. It has to do with a lot of community outreach and educat

Public Safety committee  Thank you. I apologize for the delay. You have an excellent IT department, which got me in. Thank you for inviting me to appear today. I'm Brian Sauvé, president of the National Police Federation, the sole certified bargaining agent representing close to 20,000 members of the RC

Veterans Affairs committee  I think having services where they are needed is a very good thing. If that means decentralization, it means decentralization.

Veterans Affairs committee  You've seen a slowdown, obviously, in the service delivery and the service access, but mostly you're being pushed towards the My VAC Account or 1-800 numbers and contact from that. For those who are already in the occupational stress injury clinics, in treatments, obviously thos

Veterans Affairs committee  I do. I don't know if I share it for the same reasons. I would share it mainly because, as any organization hires people to do its service, there's a difference in commitment level with respect to temporary and permanent full-time. When someone comes on temporarily working part t

Veterans Affairs committee  I like your optimism with “as COVID comes to an end”. A lot of people would say we're going to be with this for a long time. No, I haven't seen that happen. I haven't heard that, but from an RCMP member's perspective, obviously there has to be an injury in service first and then

Veterans Affairs committee  The impact of the closure was short-lived thankfully, but the reopening had the greatest impact on our members. As I mentioned, in 2019, in those three short years since they had been reopened, 13,000 members received service or care through those offices. The fact is that Canada