It's a very good point.
When you look at the things we experienced going through this, getting it up and running—for over two years now—as I said earlier, it was the balance piece. The role of the federal government is actually very similar to that of the provincial government. We have championship. We have the premier. I think there's a role for championship at the federal government. We have a formalized structure. I think there's a role for the federal government in part of that structure. It's all based on evidence-based practices. That's stuff the NCPC could be supporting and playing a part in. It basically focuses on process, including the barriers to privacy.
One of the gentlemen asked a question on privacy. That was one of our biggest barriers. We did a lot of work on that privacy assessment. When acute elevated risks exist for individuals and families, it should be the norm that we're asking what we can do to help, rather than waiting for them to be in the system and hiding behind the fact that we don't share information. I think there is a real role the federal government can play in relation to that legislative piece.
Everybody respects privacy. I haven't seen that...not ever. But there are times when privacy becomes a barrier. I do not think privacy legislation was designed for when we have acute elevated risk for individuals and their families.
Again, the thing about where the federal government plays.... Some of the money, as mentioned, is through the Manitoba program. But this isn't a lot of money. In this whole thing these concepts are designed so that if everybody has a little piece, it's affordable. Then you tie it back into the whole policing concept: 75% of the work is not criminal in nature, 25% is criminal, and 5% lead to criminal charges.
If you take a lot of this stuff out of the system, in essence you free up time at the back end or downstream, so you can focus on the other stuff, such as organized crime, and maintain the balance. It's not one or the other. It's a reinvestment of resources into what you're actually trying to accomplish.