Thank you very much, Chair.
Thank you, witnesses, for being here today.
I'd like to move the discussion back to more traditional policing. We've been talking about fraud and international policing and so on and so forth. I'd like to talk about aboriginal policing and the work that you do in the provinces and territories, the territories being a separate item where the RCMP is the front-line service, and your support for first nations policing in the provinces. We'll exclude Quebec and Ontario because the OPP picks up a lot of that slack right now.
The RCMP has done a lot recently, in the last number of decades, in fact, to save costs. I'll use, just as an example, not moving officers around as much or not in such a short period of time.
Let me talk first about the work that you do in the provinces and your relationship with first nations police services. I know first-hand, and we've heard from witnesses, that first nations policing is in trouble. How does re-engineering fit into helping ensure that aboriginal police forces are effective and that you are able, with your own budget cuts and so on, to provide the support for those first nations police services that is lacking, certainly in northern Ontario where continual chronic underfunding of first nations police forces has forced the OPP to pick up a lot of the slack? And they're not doing it anymore because they don't have the money either.
I wonder if you'd like to make a comment on re-engineering and how that works. This is for either one of you.