The committee has police associations and police leaders on it. The OPP are involved in all the subcommittees, as well as ministry employees, managers, and a number of other advisors who are really looking at four different areas, which are law enforcement and victims' assistance, crime prevention, emergency response and public order, and administration and infrastructure. They're looking at ways that business could be delivered potentially as efficiently or more efficiently, and financially, looking at a model that will ultimately save dollars. That's what it's all about.
But at the same time, it's not just about saving money. It's about delivering the services that the taxpayers need and deserve, and whether the model by which that is done is proper. There's a lot of discussion in Ontario about the Quebec model, because Quebec has a policing model that is unique in Canada. They have virtually legislated small police departments away. It's tough to say goodbye to a small police department in a municipality that has been there forever. The officers still have employment; they just wear a different uniform.
That's one of the things that this future of policing committee has been discussing to some degree, whether there is legislative change needed in Ontario. I think there is. Unfortunately, the 10-officer departments cannot keep up, cannot afford to have a chief, their own radio room, their own dispatchers, their own building. A larger police department could absorb them and deliver the services more effectively, using the great officers who are there. It's not a slam to them. It's just an inefficient model.
It's all about effective, efficient, sustainable police service delivery. That's the mandate of that committee.