Our community is an hour and a half away from the closest RCMP station if they take that away. We also have another community that we can get to by boat where they've done this already. Their crime rate has gone way up. We're afraid that because there's nothing there, businesses will end up paying higher insurance costs, since people will know that it's an hour and a half before the RCMP will be able to get to them. We have drug issues that will become bigger. Those are the things we worry about. I know that some small communities are closer to bigger cities, but ours is an hour and a half away by a dirt road--it also has to do with conditions as to how they get there.
On September 28th, 2009. See this statement in context.