Obviously, if the federal government is going to influence any police department that way, it would be through the RCMP. Increased funding—for example, the federal government has funded the police officers recruitment fund for five years. That just ended but that was a great program. Funding like that, to increase civilianization, is always a possibility.
As I said, you just can't snap your fingers and always convert police to civilians. Sometimes you need to come up with the salary dollars somehow or other, and free them so you can create civilian positions. Sometimes it can be a swap out.
I can't see how the federal government could influence the OPP, for example, or municipal police departments in Ontario in a big way unless they were providing something to encourage that. Then hopefully that creates savings that go back to municipalities down the road.