Maybe I can go back to when I was a police officer in these communities. We didn't see as much violence, and we didn't see as many drugs. The leading cause is the drugs coming into the community now, with crystal meth being so cheap. Of course, residential schools impacted their lifestyles, as well. For some of these kids, they never really had the parenting, the structure of a family. It's not there. The number of kids we deal with now...I don't know how to explain it. It's just that they don't even know right from wrong. That's what I'm trying to say. It's very sad.
With all these big city problems, back in the day, with the drugs and the violence happening in cities, those all came to the small towns, to these communities. The leaders and the teachers are overwhelmed with the problems now, as are the police services. There's the shortage of police services in northern Saskatchewan. I can only speak for northern Saskatchewan, where there are supposed to be five members, but it's down to one.
A neighbouring community is supposed to have, I believe, 19 police officers, but they're down to five. They're so busy responding to stuff. Again, it's because of the families, because of the residential schools. That's one of the main reasons.