I think I touched on that in my remarks. Information sharing in this country right now, particularly from a public safety perspective but also more broadly from a community safety perspective, is one of the biggest barriers to delivering on the commitment to keep Canadians safe across all sectors.
From my perspective and on behalf of the members I represent, front-line police officers.... I go to meetings across the country where that's one of the primary issues they raise, the fact that you can't get information from another agency, and that if you'd had it, you could've been more proactive, for instance, in terms of getting ahead of a potential offence being committed.
From a policing perspective, we deal predominantly with criminal offences. But if you go further, particularly in light of some of the recent events, not just in this country but in other countries—especially when you look at the major urban centres across the country—front-line police officers are gathering intelligence and they're interacting with different groups in our communities every day. There are many examples, as you alluded, Mr. Norlock, where an inconsequential piece of information in one jurisdiction becomes a pivotal piece of information in terms of successfully concluding an investigation and getting it to prosecution in another jurisdiction.
We support those information-sharing provisions in the legislation, and I think they could even go further beyond the federal institutions and include, particularly, some of the larger municipal police departments like Toronto, Vancouver, and Calgary. You have lots of activity occurring in those big communities, which is being monitored right now but where information is not being exchanged the way it should be.