Thank you very much.
I'd like to ask you this, specifically: Two first nations in my riding announced over the summer that they were going to withdraw from the Treaty Three Police Service. They cited that they did not feel the service was adequate. I know Treaty Three Police has remarkable people working in their organization. I know they are also under-resourced, which is, I believe, the direct cause of why we saw those two communities pull out.
I also heard, through meetings with Treaty Three Police, that it's not necessarily just about a lack of funding. It's also about restrictions on funding. For example, they will sometimes receive funding from the government, but only for a specific thing, such as a police cruiser. That might not be something that is actually needed. One of the major constraints is, frankly, your government being overbearing and dictating to police departments what they can and cannot spend their funding on.
Are you moving to address this and ensure first nations police services have the freedom to allocate funding as they see fit?