Yes, absolutely.
I won't repeat everything that Vice-Chief Tsannie said, but I do agree that there should be an indigenous police force. We have enough retired former police members who could help in the development. The nations and the first nations leadership need to be involved, and even young people need to be involved in developing this system. Of course, that also means the funding needs to be there.
There's always competition for funding with the RCMP, the provincial police forces and even the safety officers, but we know that the safety officers, police and the style of indigenous policing that we have right now, like the TIPI we heard about earlier and first nations peacekeepers, work because they know our community. They know the languages and the struggles and they know the history.
Right now, there is a very targeted attack on first nations because we are vulnerable. We don't have the same security. We heard about airports not having the same security and about a massive amount of drugs coming into our nations. To me, this is foreign interference. This is definitely a description of that, because people are getting hurt. People are getting recruited, as we heard from Chief Yellowback earlier. People are being targeted through social media as well.
We are prime subjects for criminal organizations that are definitely being seen and felt in our communities, and that needs to stop with an increased presence of indigenous policing in our country.