Mr. Chair, in fact, we did increase funding for policing quite considerably in budget 2000-01.
In terms of the figures the member talked about, we would have to look at total police services in the country. I can tell him that three or four weeks ago I was at the training depot in Regina which is world renowned facility for training police officers. Of course the RCMP itself is world renown. Depot is working full out. It is full to capacity. In fact, the previous seven weeks prior to my being there it had a graduating class every week. We are working to full capacity to keep the human resources in place within the RCMP ranks.