Thanks for that clarification.
I'll go over to the commissioner. I read the national recruitment strategy with a lot of interest. It notes that there's a need to define and target those whom the RCMP needs to hire and that the RCMP needs to hire “the right people” to “meet the needs of Contract and Federal Policing and develop a comprehensive approach to workforce planning”. This is on page 7 of the strategy.
You also note at page 14 that there are current challenges not necessarily in the number of applicants but in the quality of applicants relative to what the RCMP needs. You note attributes, skills, fitness and those sorts of things.
There's also a bit of talk about diversity of the force reflecting Canadians, particularly with respect to indigenous and bilingual applicants or recruits and other under-represented groups. It's really important that the force reflect Canada.
That's a very important thing.
I'd like to know a little more. Maybe we'll focus specifically on the indigenous folks. How do you see the indigenous recruitment strategy possibly helping you with recruitment targets in places where it is difficult to fill vacancies, like the north, for example?