Mr. Chairman, if I found out that members of my organization weren't sharing appropriate information with other agencies, heads would roll. People would be out of a job. So it's just not an issue where we are.
The RCMP have taken over a program that was started in B.C., where a street cop can be in his car with a computer and run a name, query a name, birthdate, and address, and through what's called LEIP, the Law Enforcement Information Portal, it will check databases from records management at a wide variety of Ontario police agencies. So that is records management. On an officer's screen, it will say, you know, he was the subject of inquiries or of a case in Ontario, or Quebec, or whatever it is.
The information flow and exchange is hampered only by the information technology, which we're moving ahead, and as you know, that can be very costly.
But I just want to emphasize that there's no reluctance on sharing information at all, and the RCMP has been very open. On national security levels, we are even at a stage of final agreement with some further information sharing. So it's very productive.