That's a two or three-part question.
First of all, you'd have to ask the Sûreté du Québec, or SQ, about the lack of indigenous police resources, because I don't hire the SQ police officers.
With regard to loans from services like the ones we got from the Pikogan police service, we approached a number of neighbouring communities again so we could try to have police officers in uniform who would come out with us on the ground.
Officer Annick Wylde from Pikogan wore her uniform in public in downtown Val-d'Or, which allowed for a different approach and a more targeted connection with people. In addition, she was easier to approach for some people in the communities.
I haven't done any research on this, but perhaps we could change something in the process to try to attract people, because we would really love young people in our communities to become police officers in our forces. The Cégep de l'Abitibi‑Témiscamingue and other facilities in Quebec offer police technology courses. There are also indigenous police force cohorts. I don't know much about this, but I do know that it's pretty hard to recruit people from the communities and that everyone would like to see more indigenous officers. We'd definitely like to have many more. One solution might be to provide better coaching or offer internships to raise awareness of our profession.