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Minister, as you know, crime or evidence labs are a significant part of the landscape for law enforcement in this country. As a result, we see that currently the RCMP provides nationally mandated lab services for those law enforcement agencies that don't have their own lab or can't afford to use private labs. We know there are huge delays and certain amounts of evidence are being rejected. I'm told by crime technicians from the RCMP lab that they're restricting capacity, limiting capacity, and even limiting the outsourcing of evidence currently to private labs, which adds even further to those backlogs. We know we're losing convictions on serious crimes, such as sexual assaults, across this land because of that.
I wonder whether you would commit today to ensuring that we address those backlogs to make sure that those who commit these crimes are held responsible based on the evidence that has been gathered and that we don't lose them because we can't get the lab results back in a timely manner.