I suppose I'll start with Canada Border Services animals. We've seen them at the airports. We see them sometimes on television. They're walking past passengers and past baggage. I can tell you that Canada Border Services Agency has a detector dog service, and as I understand it there are about 53 detector dog service teams. That would be the operator and the animal together. They serve to facilitate and expedite the inspection of goods coming into the country, because you can imagine that it might be a lot more labour intensive if you didn't have them screening and using their God-given gift of being able to sniff, although they are trained. It does take specific training for them to be able to detect explosives or certain types of drugs.
With regard to police dogs—and now I'll mostly make reference to the RCMP— they have what we understand are 157 dog teams across the country. As as the Minister was saying, they are involved in all types of activities, including VIP protection, crowd control—and, as you mentioned, horses are used in that connection as well. If I can just step away and talk about horses for a moment, when mounted officers are in a crowd or there's a crowd situation.... Suppose it's Canada Day, it's not even a demonstration against something, but a happy occasion, and someone has a heart attack. If there's a mounted officer, the people on the ground can see the officer. He's higher up. He's more visible. Also, in the reverse situation, a mounted officer can perhaps see something happening.
So they really are teams and are really useful in law enforcement. What distinguishes these animals from all the other animals is the important role they play in the administration of justice and in assisting the police not only to enforce the law but also in helping people to obtain medical treatment or whatever.