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L to R: Kerri Hoffman, Ben Adair, John Barth, Aaron Glantz, Jake Shapiro, Susanne Reber and Amy Pyle (2015) Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino has said he's hoping to have Bill C-20 passed before Parliament's summer break.A Peabody Award for Reveal: The VA's Opiate Overload. Would it be fair to say that the budget allocation that is currently in place is about half of what your reasonable expectation is for the number of complaints that most likely will come forward? he asked. NDP MP Peter Julian called the CRCC's current resource level a major issue. The final report of the Mass Casualty Commission tasked with investigating police response to the massacre pointed to systemic issues within the RCMP and called out its response to the tragedy. That is an absolutely tragic situation that we should have taken on ourselves, but we just didn't have the resourcing to be able to do it, said Lahaie. Joudrey died suddenly in October after speaking out about mental health issues. mass shooting report condemns RCMP failures, calls for dramatic reforms (new window)

Watchdog opens probe into RCMP unit that polices resource standoffs in B.C.

I just keep getting letters in the mail every month that they'll, they got no news, he told the Mass Casualty Commission. In May of 2022, Joudrey told the inquiry investigating the mass shooting that he still had not been told of a resolution in his case. Joudrey died in October after experiencing years of what he described as "hell" trying to move away from the area where many of his friends and neighbours were killed. Leon Joudrey in May 2020 near his home in Portapique, N.S. Then RCMP commissioner Brenda Lucki assigned RCMP members from Nova Scotia to investigate Joudrey's complaint, but they were unaware of the agreed-upon timeline to deliver a response. He alleged the responding officers failed to warn him of the threat to his safety or evacuate him from Portapique, and that he had been able to drive freely through crime scenes in Portapique in the absence of RCMP scene security. In July 2020, Joudrey complained to the CRCC about the RCMP's response to the mass murder.

Lahaie raised the case of Leon Joudrey, a resident of Portapique, N.S., and neighbour of the gunman who killed 22 people in April of 2020. It's taking up a lot of my resources, but it's absolutely critical that we do so, said Lahaie. I refer to systemic reviews as our opportunity to fix policing before the police officer walks out the door.įor example, the CRCC is currently investigating the activities and operations of the Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG), a special unit that polices protests against resource extraction in British Columbia. What the commission needs is additional resources to be able to do that more often, she said. Lahaie said she can only take on one or two of those systemic investigations each year.

Those can look at policing trends, training gaps, egregious errors and any other matter the chair feels warrants more investigation. The CRCC chair can also initiate what's called a systemic investigation into RCMP activities. 'Nobody intervened': Portapique resident dies after speaking out about mental health issues (new window).RCMP union tells Ottawa to stop making Mounties investigate colleagues (new window).Lahaie said her team handles about 300 to 350 of those cases every year. The watchdog then reviews those investigations if complainants aren't satisfied. She said she also needs more funding to launch more investigations.Īs it stands, the CRCC receives complaints from the public and, in the vast majority of cases, refers them to the RCMP for investigation. Lahaie told the committee she asked for more funding to handle a caseload that could increase by thousands of files per year once the public can lodge complaints against border staff.