The Harper government took the extraordinary step of going outside the scandal-plagued RCMP to choose its new commissioner. The appointment of William Elliott, a career bureaucrat, was confirmed on July 5th. Elliott said he knew he'd be facing some tough challenges. (Elliott, a trained lawyer, replaced former commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli, who resigned after testimony he gave a Commons committee looking into the Maher Arar affair was proven false.)

Date: 2007-07-05
Placeline: OTTAWA, Ontario.
Source: The Canadian Press
Length: 22 seconds

Transcript Prediction: << I am not a police officer and I am not from within the RCMP so clearly I'm going to have to rely even more then my predecessors over the long history of the RCMP on the expertise of the police officers who are there and who make up the the people that the that provide the services to to Canadian >>

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