Particularly in a year where we already had the Olympics--which was a huge draw on police forces from across the country, because no police force in Canada is really big enough on its own within a specific city to manage an event the size of the G-8 and the G-20--the reality was that police forces were seeking assistance from other police forces across the country.
The RCMP, in particular, drew from its other divisions in order to have sufficient numbers of people in Toronto. And that was difficult for many of the other police forces, given that there had already been a fairly large loan of people for the Olympics in February.