Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I would like to thank Ms. Doyle and Mr. Jagelewski for being here today.
I represent a rural region located along the Canada-United States border. There is a broad range of crime there. There is human trafficking, contraband cigarette trafficking, weapons trafficking, forgery, and so on. Those are the kinds of crime committed in my region. However, there are also all the other kinds of crime that you find in large urban centres, including crime by small gangs, theft and all kinds of things like that.
One of the crime prevention programs, which was intended mainly for adolescents, worked well. The school drop out rate was a real problem in the rural communities. We saw that with fairly early prevention, young people were of course less likely to turn to crime, to different kinds of substance abuse and problems like that.
You just mentioned a holistic approach. What kinds of investment could be profitable for all partners, philanthropic investment funds, and so on? What types of partnership could be encouraged to deal with various kinds of crime?
The problems in rural areas are not the same as in the Greater Toronto Area, for example.