Public Safety committee  I believe it has to be fixed, because when a process goes on more than a year and a half without any results, ordinary people may feel discouraged. They will not come back, or they may not even come forward the next time around. We need to fast-track without compromising the qual

Public Safety committee  I hear a lot about training. I think that we have to start training at an early level, even before they get to the police department, and let us not forget that we need to train the trainers, because often trainers are behind the times in terms of concepts such as intersectionali

Public Safety committee  I would like to see less abstraction, less theory, and more direct contact with real people in real scenarios in terms of real training in police techniques and technologies. More importantly, you have to make sure that the cadets, the trainees, reflect the communities in which

Public Safety committee  I don't think we should talk about defunding the police for the purpose of what you just mentioned. I think the term can be very loaded. We need to develop a very wise, strategic and cost-effective public policy approach to budget allocation, whether for policing or for any other

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much. The first thing is basically to have public and community accountability. I try to be as operational as possible. I believe the police commissioners and leaders should really get out there, meet the community, and create structures to bring policing back to

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much. With the time I have, I'll be very short. Data is about science. Data is about quantity and quality. If we support science, we need data to measure. It's the same thing to deal with the COVID-19 infection and fatality rates. We need race-based data. We nee

Public Safety committee  We just have to look at the complaints that are filed, whether with human rights commissions or with commissions that receive complaints about police misconduct. I must point out a caveat. Most human rights commissions, at least the Commission des droits de la personne et des dr

Public Safety committee  I would like to defer to my friend Ms. Audette. The floor is yours, Ms. Audette.

Public Safety committee  Thank you to the member for the question. With the experience and knowledge that we have, we believe that the structure as it is right now needs some clarification with regard to its mandate in dealing with race, racism or discrimination. There's a blur with regard to police mis

Public Safety committee  Okay.

Public Safety committee  Precisely. We're catching up with the technology. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. I'm going to give my presentation in both languages, because we are in Quebec, but also in Canada, which has two official languages. I'm the execu