Mr. Chair, there's no question that when it comes to re-certification, we will not be able to use just two or three facilities. We will be using facilities across the country to allow our officers to be re-certified, and there will be many opportunities similar to the one you describe.
In terms of the initial part of this important initiative, it was important to us to ensure we would have training that is exactly the same everywhere, and to go through the process with the RCMP, because in this organization we don't have that kind of experience. What we have been focusing on as one of our many parallel initiatives to make sure we can rapidly deploy our officers at the border has been obtaining and developing trainers. Many of our officers across the country are interested in obtaining that expertise through the RCMP.
These people have been tested. There is a series of tests related to training and ability. There are psychological tests, etc., because some of our employees would not be able to do that. That process is going on, and rapidly. As was described by my colleague, we will have the first group of trained, armed employees deployed next summer.
After that, and once we are comfortable with our process, we will look inside. We will ask for expressions of interest from other organizations that might be able to help us give exactly the same training that was developed initially. This is what is being done at the moment.