Thank you very much for your question. I'm glad to have the opportunity to speak about what CIROC does.
Historically, law enforcement agencies across the country have expended significant effort to ensure a certain level of coordination, to avoid duplication of efforts, and to try to work closer together.
The creation of CIROC goes back, I believe, to 2007. The goal of creating this committee was to provide a forum where law enforcement agencies, rather than speak of simply cooperation and assistance, would have the ability to share real-time intelligence, to work and prioritize their work based on a single threat assessment, and to enter into discussions with respect to the highest level national threats to ensure that those threats were not allowed to continue unchecked. The goal and the discussion is to make sure there is a law enforcement agency that has authority, that has a responsibility to expend some effort to disrupt and interdict the threat in question.
Over the course of a number of years, the work of CIROC evolved to the point where we now have a single threat assessment, but the discussion has evolved to the point where agencies are actually working together to disrupt these threats. Whether they are local in nature, whether they are interprovincial or international, what we've seen by sharing the information to the level we're sharing it now is that even those local threats do have, at the very least, an interprovincial linkage.
I'll give you an example. We have an ongoing project, currently, that involves 28 different police services and 56 different investigations that are being coordinated through CIROC. Already the results are unprecedented.