First and foremost, you think about a citizen, a person in the community, and when they see an RCMP officer they don't know the status of that particular person. Therefore, I don't think it would behoove anyone to feel as though they are not protected. How are they going to maintain trust throughout the process if something could be thrown out because—by an asterisk or some technical issue or something they had no idea about—they can't bring a complaint forward?
On June 6th, 2023. See this statement in context.