Thank you, Chiefs, for coming.
Of course, we can't be great leaders without support staff, so thank you, Julie McGregor.
I thank you guys for highlighting what we've all known for years—even the last panel said this—which is that the real solutions to policing lie in the communities themselves.
It's a huge country, with 600-plus first nations. A lot of them do policing, security and family differently, but there is a holistic uniqueness to what they have in common, which is underfunding, being undersupported and a lack of political will and jurisdictional recognition from the government when it comes to policing. After the 2022 mass killings at James Smith Cree Nation, the prime minister at the time promised to make indigenous policing a police service.
I'll build upon my Bloc colleague's last question, which wasn't answered. Perhaps the national chief or the regional chief can answer this.
It's been three years. Can you expand on the real consequences of not keeping that promise and the commitment from the current government, and of not making this essential? There is still a high rate of crime, a high rate of victimhood in our communities and a higher rate of people bringing drugs into our communities.
This commitment was made three years ago. Can you talk about the effects of that commitment not being fulfilled?