Yes, we do. We are competing with the likes of Surrey, which, as you're aware, has created a new police service. We're competing with the Surrey police service and we're competing with the Vancouver police service. We are the second-lowest-paid police service in Canada, and in British Columbia, we are the lowest-paid municipal police service.
We have tried numerous things to attract recruits. We have joined the municipal pension plan. We are going to be having our grand opening. We'll be inviting APTN out so that they can do a video clip and we can put a plug in there to recruit. It is very difficult when you're competing with agencies that are paying their first-class constables $107,000 annually and you're providing $86,101 for a first-class constable. As well, we're a program. We're program-funded versus being essential, for which funding is sustained and it's there.
It definitely creates challenges for recruiting when you have someone who is looking to enter policing as a career and they don't know whether, at the end of the 10-year agreement, their career will continue.
Those are the challenges we're faced with.