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Program directory · RCMP External Review Committee

Appeal case reviews

Department: RCMP External Review Committee
Program code: BXJ01 (ERC)
Core responsibility: Independent review of RCMP employment matters
In Departmental Plans: 2019-20 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

Independent reviews of appeals of internal RCMP decisions regarding key employment matters such as dismissals, discharges and harassment complaints, as required by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act. The ERC provides findings and recommendations for a final decision to the Commissioner of the RCMP (or a delegate) and to the parties. If the Commissioner does not follow the ERC’s recommendations, the Act requires the reasons for not doing so to be included in the final decision.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2019-20. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data.

Program	Relation	Years with data	Actual spending over those years
Appeal case reviews	Earlier program (name match, high confidence)	2010-11 – 2020-21	$14.9M
Appeal case reviews	This program	2019-20 – 2028-29	$24M

Significant changes in scope and budget

Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.

Year	What changed	Source
2019-20	Appears to replace Appeal case reviews	Canada Spends name match across plans (an inference)

Success criteria

The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.

Historical: targets against results

Frequency of website postings of the latest summaries of ERC findings and recommendations and of RCMP final decisions.

Expected result: RCMP members and the public have access to current information on the issues addressed by the ERC in its reviews.

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2019-20	≥ 4%	2020	4%	Met
2020-21	≥ 4%	2021	66.5% Website posting of findings and recommendations summaries in the two first quarters of the fiscal year were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The ERC was 100% on target for the 3rd and 4th quarter.	Met
2021-22	≥ 4%	2022	84% We were 100% through 3 quarters and then missed Q4 due to web migration	Met
2022-23	≥ 4%	2023	100%	Met
2023-24	≥ 4%	2024	100%	Met
2024-25	≥ 100%	2025	100%	Met

Legal analyses include an assessment of essential facts, considerations and options.

Expected result: Thorough and expert legal analysis supports the drafting of findings and recommendations for each referred case.

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2019-20	≥ 100%	2020	100%	Met
2020-21	≥ 100%	2021	— New process efficiencies shortened the time to complete analysis of cases without negatively impacting the ERC’s ability to provide extensive independent and impartial review of the cases referred to it.	No result reported
2021-22	≥ 100%	2022	100%	Met
2022-23	≥ 100%	2023	100%	Met
2023-24	≥ 100%	2024	100%	Met
2024-25	≥ 100%	2025	100%	Met

Percentage of findings and recommendations that are issued within the service standard.

Expected result: Findings and recommendations are issued in a timely manner.

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2019-20	≥ 100%	2020	0% ERC will establish service standards in 2020-21.	Not met
2020-21	≥ 100%	2021	— Not applicable (Reporting period starting in 2022-23)	No result reported
2021-22	≥ 100%	2022	0% Not applicable (Reporting period starting in 2022 23)	Not met
2022-23	≥ 100%	2023	100%	Met
2023-24	≥ 100%	2024	100%	Met
2024-25	≥ 100%	2025	100%	Met

Pre-screening is initiated within 30 days of receipt of a file from the RCMP. Pre-screening reports are completed within 3 days after initiation.

Expected result: Timely identification of key case issues to support file management.

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2019-20	≥ 100%	2020	96% In 2019-2020, in order to improve its efficiency, the ERC has focused on triaging cases that had not been pre-screened to identify key issues to support file management.	Not met
2020-21	≥ 100%	2021	85% With the introduction of the new prescreening service standard, cases were prescreened in an average of 27 days.	Not met
2021-22	≥ 100%	2022	98% During the 2021-2022 fiscal year, 98% of cases referred to the ERC were prescreened within 30 days of receipt	Not met
2022-23	≥ 100%	2023	100%	Met
2023-24	≥ 100%	2024	100%	Met
2024-25	≥ 100%	2025	100%	Met

Report addresses all ERC recommendations and key activities (e.g. management initiatives, outreach, communications).

Expected result: Parliamentarians and Canadians are informed of the ERC’s recommendations and activities.

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2019-20	≥ 1	2020	1	Met
2020-21	≥ 1	2021	100	Met
2021-22	≥ 1	2022	100	Met
2022-23	≥ 1	2023	100	Met
2023-24	≥ 1	2024	1	Met
2024-25	≥ 1	2025	1	Met

The degree to which RCMP final decisions concord with ERC recommendations, expressed as the % of the RCMP final decisions that fully agree, partly agree or do not agree with the recommendations.

Expected result: Findings and recommendations support fair and transparent recourse processes and decision-making.

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2019-20	≥ 100%	2020	100% Agreed in 82%, agreed in part in 4% and disagreed in 14%	Met
2020-21	≥ 100%	2021	100% Agreed in 76%, agreed in part in 0% and disagreed in 24%.	Met
2021-22	≥ 100%	2022	100% Agreed in 96% and disagreed in 4%.	Met
2022-23	≥ 100%	2023	100% 90% fully agreed with the ERC’s findings and recommendations; 7% partly agreed; and, 3% did not agree	Met
2023-24	≥ 100%	2024	100% Agreed in 88%, partially agreed in 3%, and disagreed in 9%	Met
2024-25	≥ 100%	2025	100% 2024–25: Agreed in 58%, partially agreed in 5% and disagreed in 37%	Met

Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets

Frequency of website postings of the latest summaries of ERC findings and recommendations and of RCMP final decisions.

Expected result: RCMP members and the public have access to current information on the issues addressed by the ERC in its reviews.

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2026-27	≥ 100%	2027	—	Planned

Legal analyses include an assessment of essential facts, considerations and options.

Expected result: Thorough and expert legal analysis supports the drafting of findings and recommendations for each referred case.

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2026-27	≥ 100%	2027	—	Planned

Percentage of findings and recommendations that are issued within the service standard.

Expected result: Findings and recommendations are issued in a timely manner.

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2026-27	≥ 100%	2027	—	Planned

Pre-screening is initiated within 30 days of receipt of a file from the RCMP. Pre-screening reports are completed within 3 days after initiation.

Expected result: Timely identification of key case issues to support file management.

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2026-27	≥ 100%	2027	—	Planned

Report addresses all ERC recommendations and key activities (e.g. management initiatives, outreach, communications).

Expected result: Parliamentarians and Canadians are informed of the ERC’s recommendations and activities.

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2026-27	≥ 1	2027	—	Planned

The degree to which RCMP final decisions concord with ERC recommendations, expressed as the % of the RCMP final decisions that fully agree, partly agree or do not agree with the recommendations.

Expected result: Findings and recommendations support fair and transparent recourse processes and decision-making.

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2026-27	≥ 100%	2027	—	Planned

Future goals: targets due after 2026-27

No targets with a later due date.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.

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Fiscal year	Planned	Actual
2019-20	$3.4M	$3.1M
2020-21	$3.2M	$3.2M
2021-22	$6.4M	$3.9M
2022-23	$6.4M	$4.9M
2023-24	$6.5M	$3.9M
2024-25	$4.6M	$5M
2025-26	$4.8M	—
2026-27	$4.6M	—
2027-28	$4.6M*	—
2028-29	$4.5M*	—

Employees (FTEs)

Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.

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Fiscal year	Planned	Actual
2019-20	17	15
2020-21	17	17
2021-22	33	22
2022-23	33	24
2023-24	33	21
2024-25	24	19
2025-26	18	—
2026-27	17	—
2027-28	17*	—
2028-29	15*	—

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Plan	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26	2026-27	2027-28	2028-29
2019-20 plan	$3,414,034	$2,815,716	$966,799
2020-21 plan		$3,209,167	$966,799	$967,964
2021-22 plan			$6,432,998	$6,433,553	$6,433,553
2022-23 plan				$6,442,098	$6,442,098	$6,442,098
2023-24 plan					$6,465,921	$6,465,921	$6,465,921
2024-25 plan						$4,614,222	$4,616,704	$4,616,704
2025-26 plan							$4,799,577	$4,801,864	$4,801,864
2026-27 plan								$4,580,811	$4,599,937	$4,464,322
Actual	$3,132,901	$3,185,516	$3,874,705	$4,877,620	$3,941,764	$5,006,006

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.