The Committee wishes to express its grateful appreciation to those organizations and individuals who provided comments on this discussion paper. Respondents' participation in the consultation process is essential to ensure that the Committee's research into human resource management issues in the field of policing is comprehensive. In the interest of confidentiality, quotations provided in this report are anonymous.
Research is currently underway on additional discussion papers, to be released periodically.
The Committee's purpose in these consultations is to verify the accuracy of its data, gather feed-back on the form and content of the discussion paper, obtain models or options that may have been overlooked and complete the comparative analysis section of the paper. The Committee consulted the Attorneys General and Solicitors General of the Provinces and Territories, the Commissioner of the RCMP and the National Executive of the RCMP's divisional staff relations representatives. Qu bec as well as a representative number of members of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police and the Canadian Police Association were consulted. In the federal employment sector, the Committee consulted the Public Service Commission, the Treasury Board Secretariat, the Department of National Defence, and the Department of the Solicitor General. Specific major Canadian corporations were also canvassed for their views or comments.