I can answer that.
We actually do have a very good relationship with all policing partners in the province of Ontario, including the RCMP. The problem we have, though, is these are our communities, and we must be funded properly to have our own specialty units. This is where the gap is. When we do need the OPP to come into our communities, we actually have to send a letter of request to the Ontario Provincial Police commissioner to get their specialized units to come into our communities.
Sometimes that doesn't work. As an example, we don't have canines. Some do but most of us don't. We don't have drug units, etc., etc. The list goes on where we need to be sustained, get some sustainable funding, to continue to hire for that. Right now, even if we do get some funding, there's a ripple effect. If you do start a specialty unit, you're taking frontline officers off the road to be promoted into those units, and it leaves a gap at the front line. This is the problem we've been running into for over three decades.
I know, myself, in my career, I was with the Anishinabek Police Service, and then I joined the Treaty Three Police Service—that was my treaty area—and then I came back as the chief of police for the Anishinabek Police Service. The unique challenges are no different across the province. They're all the same. Without the commitment of all those hard-working men and women on the front line, things would be drastically worse. Without getting into the 2019 mental health report, there are consequences for that.