Mr. Minister, I have questions for you.
As for my first question, you keep talking about hiring 1,000 more RCMP officers, but we just got the Auditor General's report saying that over the audit period, the RCMP hired 2,262 officers and 2,200 left, resulting in almost no net growth. Also, in the last six months, they actually saw negative growth.
Did the RCMP ever realize recruitment was not keeping pace with attrition, and what corrective actions were taken at that moment?