Thank you for those welcoming remarks, Mr. Holland.
Let's start with statistics, because statistics are always brought up with respect to crime rates in this country dropping. In fact, we know that what is dropping is the rate of reported crime to police. If you look at Statistics Canada, we are now at about 34% of crimes actually being reported to police, and that is steadily dropping.
If one looks at the victimization study that Statistics Canada does every five years--there was one done in 1999 and one in 2004--what we see is a huge increase in crime in this country based on victimization reports. I believe it's somewhere between 15% and 19%.