Past Session:

Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
National Security and Defence

First Session, Forty-first Parliament, 2011-12-13

Chair: The Honourable PAMELA WALLIN

Monday, April 15, 2013
Monday, April 22, 2013
Monday, April 29, 2013

Issue No. 14

Twenty-third meeting on:
Canada's national security and defence policies, practices, circumstances and capabilities

First and second meetings on:
Bill C-42, An Act to amend the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts

INCLUDING:
THE TENTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
(Budget 2013-14 — Special study on Canada's defence and security relationships with the United States)
THE ELEVENTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
(Budget 2013-14 — Special study on Canadians Forces bases and their importance to the defence of Canada)
THE TWELFTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
(Budget 2013-14 — Special study on services and benefits provided to veterans and their families)

APPEARING

The Honourable Vic Toews, P.C., M.P., Minister of Public Safety

WITNESSES

Monday, April 15, 2013

RAND Corporation:

Stuart E. Johnson, Senior Policy Analyst (by video conference);

John Gordon IV, Senior Policy Analyst (by video conference).

Monday, April 22, 2013

Public Safety Canada:

François Guimont, Deputy Minister;

Mark Potter, Director General, Policing Policy Directorate.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police:

Bob Paulson, Commissioner;

Superintendent Michael O'Rielly, Director, Legislative Reform Initiative.

Monday, April 29, 2013

Commission for the Public Complaints Against the RCMP:

Ian McPhail, Interim Chair;

Richard Evans, Senior Director, Operations;

Lesley McCoy, Legal Counsel

RCMP External Review Committee:

Catherine Ebbs, Chair;

David Paradiso, Executive Director and Senior Counsel.

Canadian Police Association:

Tom Stamatakis, President (by video conference).

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Pamela Wallin, Chair

The Honourable Roméo Antonius Dallaire, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Campbell, *Cowan (or Tardif), Day, *LeBreton, P.C. (or Carignan), Manning, Mitchell, Nolin, Patterson, Plett

* Ex officio members

(Quorum 4)

Changes in membership of the committee:

Pursuant to rule 12-5, membership of the committee was amended as follows:

The Honourable Senator Manning replaced the Honourable Senator Duffy (April 23, 2013).

The Honourable Senator Duffy replaced the Honourable Senator Manning (April 22, 2013).

The Honourable Senator Plett replaced the Honourable Senator Buth (April 17, 2013).

National Security, Defence and Veterans Affairs