Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for appearing before the committee today.
I have five minutes, so I can't cover everything in that time. Like my fellow members, I'd like to talk about the serious concerns related to oversight. I'm not sure whether they can be described as management issues or management deficiencies. Given what we've heard so far, I feel there's a lot of justifying going on. We are being told about the challenges tied to geography, training and so forth.
In the past, I've worked with local police commissions in Quebec, and I can tell you that anything involving training, equipment, tools, firearms or bulletproof vests was considered critical. Those things were essential to an officer's work, and no one went out into the field without them. It makes me very uncomfortable to find out that, when the equipment was finally rolled out, it wasn't possible to achieve 100% compliance. A certain percentage of compliance will always be out of reach for a variety of reasons. Do the officers in the field lack any of the required training they are supposed to have? Are they missing any of the equipment they are supposed to have? Reassure me, please, because I find this very troubling.