Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to start by thanking all our witnesses today for your excellent testimony. It's going to help us as we formulate some recommendations that will come out in our report on this study.
I'm going to start with Chief Bill this morning.
Chief Bill, I don't know if you remember, but I had the privilege of participating in the public safety committee meetings last summer when you were there. I remember some of your testimony then very specifically. I want to follow up a little bit on what we talked about last July and also some of your comments today.
First of all, you spoke last summer of your community safety plan and specifically the community safety officer program. Again today, you spoke of it very highly. You were elected in 2014. You identified an issue. You listened to people and you started to act. You created some pretty significant partnerships, by the sound of it. One of the outcomes was this community safety officer program, which you said consisted of four full-time and two part-time members by 2016.
I want you to share a little bit more. It sounds like, potentially, a real solution to the issue. I experienced this myself as the mayor of a small city. I know the first nation next to my community has begun that journey as well. It seems like an option to create some really significant solutions. Could you expand a little bit on the journey from 2014 to 2016 and how you got to the place where you enacted that CSO program?