Yes, I certainly do.
We police some of the first nation communities in Ontario alone; we just are the police. Others have their own police, which are funded through the joint federal-Ontario 52%-48% partnership. Others have stand-alone police departments. They are funded the same way, but we really don't have as much to do with them unless they have some big event. I believe there are nine of those.
The vast majority don't have enough people or resources. One community in northern Ontario, Pikangikum, is a very remote community. One of the unique issues around a lot of first nation communities is that you can only get to them by ice roads in the winter, or aircraft year-round. There's nowhere to live. If you wanted to buy a house, you couldn't, so it's really tough to attract people. When they are fully staffed, and they seldom are, they have eight constables in that first nation community.
We did our workload analysis model, and if it were an OPP detachment, we'd have 30. At any given time they only have eight. We have people there rotating in and out—week in, week out—and living in a building to help those eight officers. We're doing that in various communities all across northwestern and northeastern Ontario.
Most of the first nation communities in southern Ontario are larger and have more of a self-sustained police service. But they don't have the same training equipment, resources, and infrastructure that other police departments do. In my view, for those communities—and I know they have to take some ownership as communities for public safety—that model is broken. It's not suiting the needs of those communities. There are some very violent crimes, abuse issues, and problems in there, and we can only help so much. We don't want them to fail. We try our best to help them, but something is going to give.