As Lee said, it would be recognizing that it's a national problem and helping with the limited municipal resources. As was noted, we're quite active on the local scene trying to work with the council and the chief for more staffing, which they get a lot of push-back about. Since this is a national problem, help from the federal government would certainly help.
In the short term, there's nothing this committee can do, but I have to say my men and women down there do feel hopeless and abandoned. They're abandoned by their own leadership. They're abandoned by their own management team. The brothers and sisters don't feel they're supported.
When our chief spoke at a fentanyl crisis meeting two weeks ago in Vancouver, he assured council that everything is okay as far as mental health goes and not to worry because we have a great critical incident stress management team. Well, everything's not okay. It would be nice if they had somebody from the management team come to the hall not to say “suck it up”, which is a quote from a deputy, but to be there and to help and listen to these brothers and sisters and to listen to their stories.