Thank you, Minister.
Mr. Chairman, the funding that has been allocated will enable us to hire 1,000 police officers at the federal level. We need to make a clear distinction between contracts with the provinces and territories and the work that we do at the federal level. We will begin this deployment next year.
Right now, we are in the process of determining where we will deploy all these resources. The choice will be determined by the information that we collect. We want to make sure as well that the deployment is focused on regions where the most threatening organizations are active, particularly at the federal level, which means that we will be using most of these resources to fight organized crime.
Organized crime in Canada affects the whole country, but there are major organizations in Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia and the other provinces. According to our information right now, most of the deployment will take place in Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia. However, there will be some deployment in other regions, in the west and the east as well.
No final decision has been made regarding how the new staff will be distributed.