Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Gentlemen, I would like to pick up where we left off a little while ago, when we were talking about the rather sensitive issue of intervening in first nations communities.
I have suggested many times to the Minister of Public Security setting up a type of joint tactical squad made up of the police forces that you mentioned earlier, i.e., the Sûreté du Québec, the Ontario Provincial Police, the Akwesasne Police, as well as the New York Police, if such a squad doesn't already exist. As we know, the issue of first nations territories is a very complex one, which means that we have to bring multiple stakeholders together, including border services officers.
This squad could be set up in way similar to Quebec's CENTAURE strategy. The Government of Quebec poured funds into this strategy and has made other investments that seem to be more practical in Quebeckers' minds. I get the impression that it seems a lot more practical when someone tells me, for example, that they are purchasing a boat so that police officers can patrol the water ways, because firearms can be brought in by crossing the river, or that they are buying a snowmobile, because firearms trafficking goes on even in the winter.
However, we have to remind ourselves that border control falls under federal jurisdiction. So shouldn't it rather be the job of the federal government to invest the funds and create a joint tactical squad that would allow all stakeholders to communicate? I think that what Quebec has done is very good, but isn't that the type of action that the federal government has to take? Please tell me what you think.