When the Sûreté du Québec took over policing duties in Long Point, Winneway, in 2006, the Témiscamien was publishing monthly statistics on incidents occurring in Winneway. That went on for about a year, and we saw that there were more police reports in Winneway under the Sûreté du Québec than there were in the 17 or 18 other municipalities in Témiscamingue. The newspaper stopped publishing that data because it showed that there was a great need in Winneway and that the Sûreté du Québec had lost control of the situation in the community here.
Still today, when a police car drives down the hill in Winneway, people jump on social media to warn people to be careful because the police are in town. It seems to me that people are not supposed to be afraid of the police and that they should feel safer when they see a police car, but this is what it has come to. As the Kahnawake police chief, Mr. Zacharie, was saying, it all boils down to the approach that is taken. When the police come here, it is to issue fines for traffic violations or to lay charges against people.