Thank you very much for that. I guess my question would follow through on that or be in a similar vein.
We're dealing with the appointment of a commissioner, and we're also dealing with the day-to-day operation of a police force--not the least of which is that it's one of the largest police forces in the world, which has such a responsibility. I don't think there is another police force in the world that has the three components. You are a municipal police force, you are a provincial police force, and you are a national police force. All the push-pull and the different levels of government you must deal with and be sensitive to, everyone from a municipal councillor in New Brunswick to a provincial premier to the Solicitor General of Canada....
I guess my question would be.... You made a statement that you believe the RCMP should become more distant from government operations. In other words, there should be an even greater arm's length between government and the police force. Can you cite an example? Because I look at the Ontario Provincial Police and it doesn't really have a dissimilar connection to the Government of Ontario vis-à-vis the RCMP, nor does the Sûreté du Québec in its relationship with the Province of Quebec.
So I guess for the purposes of Canadians out there, why would the federal government want to see anything much different, other than perhaps the fact that Ontario has a civilian oversight? That is different from the RCMP.
Either Mr. McDonell or Mr. Souccar...?