This is a very complex matter whereby the provinces and the territories are responsible for the administration of the police. I noted in the Auditor General's report that this is clearly work that the RCMP needs to improve upon, and we intend to do that with our counterparts at Public Safety Canada.
We're not a signatory to the community tripartite agreements, CTAs, and it's our experience in some communities that there's perhaps not a great understanding of what enhanced policing is versus core policing. The RCMP welcomes the opportunity to be part of that table when CTAs are renewed. As the minister responded, out of the 146 CTAs we have nationally with 443 members, we are seeing significant vacancies in other areas as well. Unfortunately, oftentimes when there are limited numbers of members in small remote communities, they have to provide a core policing function as well, so they're not adhering to 100% of their policing time. We have to get better at that, so we agree with the Auditor General on that. However, with the optimistic and robust approach we have for recruiting, I believe that we can meet that measure in short time.