Okay. Thank you, Chair.
Thank you to all the witnesses for being here. Most importantly, thank you for your service and for your commitment to keeping communities across our country safe.
I'm happy to see a good contingent from northern Ontario.
Mr. Liu, we worked together a lot before. I appreciate all of your work, particularly with Treaty Three.
We also had Police Chief Gervais here to speak to the committee. It was concerning and frustrating for me to hear a lot of what she brought forward because they're things we have been talking about for many years.
She spoke of the gaps in service, the difficulty in being able to recruit and the mental toll it has on those who are serving. She said, “No other police service in Canada is asked to compromise so consistently on safety, wellness and sustainability” as first nation police services are.
The frustration I have is that we're here studying this again. It's an important issue, and I'm happy we're studying it, but I'm frustrated that nothing has moved. I want to know if you can speak a little more to what the real-world consequences are for safety in first nation communities, with the lack of action we see.