Sure. In March 2023, when we filed our human rights complaint, our negotiations had just started. They instantly stopped as soon as we filed that human rights complaint, and our funding was cut off. The reason that's so significant is that doesn't happen to federal, provincial or municipal police. I worked for a municipal police service. You were never afraid that if the chief of police, the mayor and council for the city were looking at a deal and if it didn't work that they would cut off funding, but that happened to us.
What kept us alive were those carry-over monetary funds and the ability for us to hire a lawyer to represent us. We're not lawyers. We're police officers. There are a lot of logistics that go into legal arguments we don't have the expertise on. It doesn't make sense that, on one side, they're able to have 14 lawyers look at an agreement, and on the first nations side for the police service, they don't. Those two conditions they are specifically looking at to change. I look at it as they looked at the two conditions we use to keep us alive, and now they're going to change those conditions.