Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The claims by the RCMP with respect to the tactical unit and the emergency response team which dealt initially with the strike situation is still a disputed claim by our government and by our department. The costs of the actual murder investigation are not in quite the same category, although we have taken the position that these additional costs are extraordinary and we reserve the right, depending on an analysis of them, to deny liability for some of them, at least, if not all of them, although they fit more within the normal range of criminal investigation than the disputed sums for the tactical unit and the 58-person emergency response team. The bottom line is that they have not given us any final invoice for any of those things. Our cheque is not in the mail. We have made it clear that we dispute liability for them. That is where it stands at the moment. There has been a suggestion by the Solicitor General that we submit the dispute to arbitration, but we have not responded to that at this point.
Mr. Bickert on Committee Motion 77-12(3): To Adopt Recommendation 14
In the Legislative Assembly on March 2nd, 1993. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 77-12(3): To Adopt Recommendation 14
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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