RCMP External Review Committee 2024-25 Departmental Plan at a glance

A departmental plan describes a department’s priorities, plans and associated costs for the upcoming three fiscal years. The RCMP External Review Committee’s raison d’être, mandate, role, and operating context can be found on the RCMP External Review Committee’s webpage.

Information on the Public Safety’s mandate letter commitments is available in the Minister’s mandate letter.

• Support fair and transparent RCMP recourse processes and decision-making with Findings and Recommendations.
• Issuing Findings and Recommendations in a timely manner.
• Continuing to foster a culture of diversity and inclusion.
• Focusing on succession planning and recruitment for key ERC positions.

In Budget 2023, the government committed to reducing spending by $14.1 billion over the next five years, starting in 2023–24, and by $4.1 billion annually after that.

While not officially part of this spending reduction exercise, the RCMP External Review Committee will respect the spirit of this exercise by doing the following:

• The ERC is committed to respecting the spirit of this exercise despite not being directly impacted by the spending reduction, by implementing efficiency measures and ensuring fiscal responsibility, such as scrutinizing non-essential expenditures and optimizing budget allocations to ensure responsible financial management.

The figures in this departmental plan reflect these reductions. 

A Departmental Results Framework consists of an organization’s core responsibilities, the results it plans to achieve, and the performance indicators that measure progress toward these results.

The core responsibility and departmental results from the RCMP External Review Committee’s Departmental Results Framework are as follows.

• ERC’s findings and recommendations support fair and transparent RCMP recourse processes and decision-making.
• Findings and recommendations are issued in a timely manner.
• RCMP members and the public have access to current information on the issues addressed by the ERC in its reviews.

Planned spending: $4,614,222

Planned human resources: 24

The ERC will contribute to the integrity of the RCMP’s recourse system by delivering independent and impartial case reviews, findings and recommendations for final decisions in appeals of internal RCMP decisions in harassment complaints, conduct cases, discharges or demotions, and stoppages of pay and allowances while effectively addressing and reducing the existing backlog in accordance with service standards.

More information about independent review of RCMP employment matters can be found in the full departmental plan.