Public Safety committee  No, your observation is correct. It applies to specified activity reviews, not to complaints. It's really a question of the degree of latitude that the committee prefers the chair have at her disposal. When the bill was introduced, the intent was to preserve the primacy of the c

Public Safety committee  It very well could, but as it stands now, nothing would stop a parliamentary standing committee from bringing a matter to the attention of the commission. The parliamentary committee does not need a provision in the statute to say to the commission, “Hey, we think this is worth a

Public Safety committee  We would identify concerns. In response to your first questions, “specified activities” are what are sometimes called systemic investigations or policy investigations. Recent ones conducted by the commission would have included things about street checks or strip searches. These

Public Safety committee  We would offer two separate areas of concern in relation to the amendment. The first is that it would create a definition of “serious incident” for the CBSA that would be different from the one that exists for the RCMP, which was not the government's intent. The intent was very

Public Safety committee  We'd offer the view that it's not necessary, on two counts. One, as my RCMP colleague has pointed out, it's already the practice under the existing provisions of the RCMP Act related to conduct. Two, once again it would bring measures of conduct, discipline, investigation and

Public Safety committee  That portion of the bill is the responsibility of my colleagues in policing policy, so they are better placed to speak to it than I am. Thank you, though.

Public Safety committee  We appreciate it may be a bit difficult to follow. It's actually a new paragraph (o.1), so it is not an addition to (o). It would simply provide for the Governor in Council to have the authority to make regulations. Proposed section 87 is the list of all the grounds on which the

Public Safety committee  My colleague can explain their process. I would just observe that the government is of the view that it is actually preferable, as part of the commission's independence, that it define those terms itself and apply those definitions as part of its own rule-making authority, whic

Public Safety committee  The purpose of the current subclause 72(2) is this: The chair of the commission will receive the reports that the agency heads send to the minister so that she, in turn, can prepare her own assessment of their reporting, in order to include it in her report to the minister, which

Public Safety committee  The language was chosen to ensure that any interpretation around clauses 67 and 68 understands the intent of those provisions, which is not to bring the commission into the disciplinary process and not to intrude on the responsibilities of deputy heads under the Financial Adminis

Public Safety committee  We discussed that the amendment raises concerns. Some are obvious, and some might be less obvious or, in fact, unintended. The safeguards in clause 71 are very specifically about ensuring that the existing disciplinary processes are not affected. Changing clause 71 such that tho

Public Safety committee  It would say that nothing in the act is to be construed as doing the very thing the act does, which is set out powers for the commissioner or president in response to their obligations to deal with the PCRC.

Public Safety committee  By adding the process of grieving the decision of the PCRC—which isn't a decision, but a recommendation; it's the outcome of the PCRC's investigation—it adds a grievance recourse before the final decision has been made. The final decision rests with the deputy head. It makes muc

Public Safety committee  To answer your question, sir, in two parts, the first is that the bill intends for the right of grievance to lie against the decision of the deputy head to discipline the employee or not. Again, the right of grievance lies against the decision-maker, not the independent body that

Public Safety committee  The government's intent was that it is still appropriate. Clause 65 was drafted with the perspective in mind that CBSA is being brought in under the jurisdiction of the commission. The logical conclusion of providing for judicial review between a recommendation of the commissio