We need a greater capacity to respond in Canada. I think one thing that's not necessarily appreciated is that in many big cities, there are more 911 calls than there are officers able to respond. One thing I found alarming, from the Peel police union, is that intimate partner violence calls go unresponded to simply because there's no manpower—no human resources—to keep up with the volume of priority one calls. Each year, more priority one calls get pushed to the back burner and I find that alarming.
Knowing how stressed police resources are, what can we do to better equip police forces to deal with this growing volume? There are things the federal government can do. I look at the amount of work we deal with in terms of repeat offenders. That's an area where I think the Government of Canada could certainly help.
