Thank you very much, Ms. O’Sullivan. You have a very impressive CV. Your answers to the questions have impressed me.
I guess I share a thirty-year history with the police force, very much in the Ottawa Valley for the first half of it, and I am from a family of six. And from there I want to start my questioning.
You indicated you learned some core values from your parents. I would suggest to you, and you can confirm if I am right, that when you come from a fairly large family, in this day and age six seems to be a larger type of family, you learn to share. You learn to prioritize, because families have limited incomes, especially when it comes down to six children who demand a lot of things. And you also learn to live within your means, but that doesn’t mean to say that you don’t aspire to better. So using those core values, how do you see your management of your department, in that you share with other departments, in that you learn to live within your means? I think as a member of a police department you can comment on whether you have ever been in a position where you were limited by the resources you were able to utilize. I think you would agree with me that there is never enough, but that sometimes you have to make do with what you have.
So I wonder if you could make some comments in regard to that, and then specifically how you see your role as an ombudsman reflect those values and some of the limitations, but not limiting your ability to represent those who police officers first handle, and that's the victims. We are the first contact victims have with society. How do you manage all those things rolled up into one? Perhaps you could just make some general comments along those lines.