Mr. Chair, I think the member has hit on exactly the issue. The problem is that the police are required to do a broad continuum of roles, everything from directing traffic in a construction zone—at $93,000 a year—to dealing with cybercrime, with multinational, multi-fraud complexities. The problem is we don't want the $93,000-a-year person doing traffic direction. We want the $93,000-a-year person spending their time on the serious issues that are impacting the economy and impacting Canadian citizens in their communities.
The back end of your point was that every once in a while that guy or girl who's doing construction is going to have to deal with an incident. The police are right there, and of course they are. The only point I would make is that if we have competent, trained, capable people performing the role that they're competent to do, we'll be a whole lot happier than if we have competent, trained, qualified people performing the roles that the others are there to do, and we'll have a differentiation of compensation based on the competencies.