Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm a substitute on the committee today, but I've had a lot to do with police forces in terms of working on human trafficking, and our own son is with the RCMP.
I was listening to this amendment and I have to tell you that in a lot of these places, from what I'm hearing from a lot of the police officers across the country--for instance, up north--they don't even have cell phone reception, let alone money for a video camera. The situations there are detachments with only one or two men. So who do you get there to run a video camera, if you have the money to have a video camera and if there are enough of them on duty up there to manipulate the camera and take care of the criminal they've apprehended? The capacity to do the video recording, to me, just from my knowledge as a lay person, is just nil in these small places.
Ms. Jennings talked about blood pressure, and I wasn't aware that inebriated people's blood pressures were taken. From what I can tell, it just seems to be the smell of alcohol and the way the person walks and talks and receives the police when they try to apprehend them.
So regarding this amendment, apart from the fact that it's going to be a big cost factor and we have to make choices about where we put the money, do we put that into video cameras or boots on the ground trying to fill these detachments?
Could you take some time, please, to elaborate on it in more depth in terms of how you see it as a police officer on the ground?