Thank you.
We're planning to arm approximately 5,000 of our officers. They'll be mainly along the land border, but also in marine ports. This will also include some of our officers who have to conduct investigations inland. The plan to deploy those armed officers, as the minister said, will start at the border crossings that are most important to us, where the volume of traffic is the highest. Before we can do that, we are now working with our people through a task force involving the union, developing all of the policies and the training that are required for that. The development of the contents of the training package is fairly advanced, but those first steps need to be carried out before we deploy people. We also have a project to procure some of that training for the first phase through existing schools, and then will have training inside our own facility in Rigaud, Quebec.
We'll see the first group of 150 armed officers being deployed in those more important crossings probably in the fall of 2007. This plan needs to be refined, and we're working on doing that at the moment. We're moving toward a complete deployment of about 5,000 people in the following years.