Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
And thank you to the witnesses for being here today.
I have a number of concerns from constituents. I'm going to go over those in a moment, but before I do, one of the things that was brought to my attention, in fact just yesterday, is the national police service. There's now a shortfall of about $28 million in the funding from the federal government for the various services provided by the national police service, and CPIC is obviously a recipient of some of that funding. The RCMP is now having to make up that cut of $28 million by the federal government, and I'm concerned about how that's going to be made up.
I know you have been bridging it by utilizing vacancies and saving money that way. But what's the plan to ensure we don't see a further degradation of service? Obviously it's not just CPIC. We have the national sex offender registry and some other extremely important things. I don't know if you can speak to those others, but I'm concerned about the implications of that funding shortfall.