That's a great comment and an interesting comment. It's the same in northern Saskatchewan, just so you know that.
What is the expectation on what you're funding? In northern Saskatchewan, if you're funding the RCMP and you're paying that same type of rate, you might not be seeing a police car, but if something bad happens in your community, you'll see a whole raft of resources show up to solve that problem. Everybody plays a role.
More importantly, the structure needs to give everybody the ability to act on local priorities, going back to what we were talking about earlier. If we can really focus on having a structure in place and figuring out how the finances go with that structure or commit that particular thing that works on the priorities, and then apply that structure in a cradle-to-grave approach based on risk, then I think you're on to something. Then what you may be able to do in those communities is if you did truly have a low-risk policing model....
A lot of the issues coming out of northern Saskatchewan aren't crime issues, they're anti-social behaviour issues. Is there a different way, connected with police, whereby we can deal with those? The answer is yes, but the answer is that it needs to be based on research and on evidence, and not on somebody's best guess.