Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Ms. Ebbs, you are the chair of the RCMP External Review Committee. You said in your presentation that you had not dealt with the case involving the pension and insurance plan. The investigation into that plan is the subject of our meeting today.
Under the present structure, it is the commissioner who decides whether or not to refer a case to you for your review. In the case that we are dealing with, Commissioner Zaccardelli was briefed about the situation on several occasions and did not accept the accumulation of arguments that could have led to the process moving faster. So the cases of Sergeant Frizzell and Mr. Macaulay, who were demoted or transferred, were certainly not referred to you, nor the case of Ms. Revine, who was declared surplus. You were not able to consider these cases because the system requires the commissioner to refer a case to you. For a system that is supposed to protect members, I find that a little peculiar.
Would you say that the system should operate differently? We know that your organization was not able to defend those people. Do you think that we should have another mechanism?