Only partly, sir. I attribute the reduction in violence to a number of things, and I give full credit to our partners in communities, youth workers, the schools, our faith leaders, business leaders, community leaders everywhere, who have really made an effort to create opportunity and hope and some prosperity in marginalized communities in deterring young people from following in the footsteps of others. We've worked hard to take those violent offenders out of the community, but the work doesn't stop at that, and more needs to be done in those communities to make them safer and better places, and more hopeful places, and less likely to attract young people into criminal activity.
We've worked hard, and I'm proud to say the police have mounted a fairly effective response, and others have worked hard as well. It's also important to acknowledge that there's no room for complacency here, and the work is not done. We have had successes in the past and we have seen something of the cyclical nature. It's important to step back a little bit from monthly successes or problems and look more generally at the larger trend, and not just in the city of Toronto.
One of the things that has also taken place in your jurisdiction.... I have spoken to Chief Stannard in Windsor, and he has expressed concern to me that there has been some displacement of my gang problems. We've been well resourced and we've worked very hard on our gangs, and some of our gangsters are moving into other jurisdictions that are less well resourced and are perhaps more vulnerable to criminal activity. So what we're seeing is an increase in gang violence in other cities across Ontario. There is some suggestion that we have displaced it, and there's some merit to that. It's incumbent upon all of us in the criminal justice system to rise together to the challenge of gun violence in our communities, so that we don't displace it, we eliminate it.