Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have an oral question for the Minister of Justice. I would like to thank my honourable colleague from Deh Cho for raising, on several occasions, matters surrounding the treatment of Kitty Nowdluk- Reynolds by RCMP officers. I understand that Ms. Nowdluk's case was reviewed by the RCMP Public Complaints
Commission in March of this year. My question is for the Minister of Justice and it deals with the procedures used by the commission in general, not the specific complaint filed by Ms. Nowdluk.
The hearings that were held involved a courtroom filled with different lawyers and wore a very adversarial and emotional process. In many ways, such hearings are as traumatic as a court trial. Has the Minister of Justice, or his officials, had an opportunity to assess whether this is the best way to treat a victim of crime who has a complaint about the conduct of the RCMP?