Thank you, Chair.
Thank you for coming. It's an important study that we're doing and you gave us some very interesting information. I found the thoughts you had for us extremely inclusive.
We have heard from a number of different organizations, such as police forces and so on, that the cost of policing is going up. In fact, one of my colleagues here has suggested that the policing costs for some of the communities here in Ontario are going to be somewhere near 50% of the municipal budget, which is huge. I'm just wondering if you have any thoughts on that.
You did talk a bit about auxiliary police officers and some of the alternate duties they could perform. Do you have any other thoughts you'd like to give us on that?