Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, both, for being here.
Deputy Commissioner, we're doing this study on the economics of policing with a view to looking at how to improve efficiencies and to see if, at the federal level, we can provide models for provinces and municipalities to work together to reduce costs.
Given the complexity of investigations, given the fact that even at the local level police are asked to do so much, is this a realistic goal? Can we reduce the cost of policing without reducing the number of front-line officers still delivering the services, still doing the excellent work that Canadian police are known throughout the world to do? Is this doable?