That's a great point and a great question.
Their success is the ability to act locally. For instance, in northern Saskatchewan you can't give a Regina solution, just as you can't give an Ottawa solution.
There's no cost to a hub; it's just folks doing their business differently, committed to meeting to address issues on a regular basis in a short timeframe.
The COR is taking another step to the franchise. We have a group of workers from multiple disciplines: mental health, addictions, police, social services, education. They work for a community governance board. So they're focused on working on community priorities—not police priorities, not health priorities, not social service priorities. That is the part that absolutely 100% can be franchised and built. That's why it was built.
What we're really talking about is focusing on risk, early and immediate intervention, and multiple agencies and services. To your point, what we're trying to do now in Saskatchewan is to look at a centre of excellence concerning the following: why are we not training, whether it's in a public safety college or moving from a policing college to a public safety college, front-line police officers, workers in mental health, social services, education, and corrections? You're bang on. Is there a role? Absolutely, there's a role, and it's important that we get it right and we do the right thing. That stuff is all on the table to be discussed.
The opportunities here to deliver better service to clients are phenomenal. With those opportunities, there's no question that significant value comes. Better service to clients gets people out of the system. The court system wasn't designed to deal with everything it does.
We even go a step further. Every time we have a specific issue, we design a different court on the back end. With due respect, our judges do a great job, but are we giving them the opportunity to be successful? A lot of policing, 75% to 76%, is anti-social behaviour calls. We need to take that stuff out of the system before it's in it so we can do a better job on the back end with the serious stuff. The only way to do that is back to balance. So I fully support what you're saying.