In short, yes, I am in agreement.
I want to talk about safety and security, the sense of it, the feeling of it, and some of the challenges with it. What we need to acknowledge as well in some of our stand-alone first nations police services is that the police are not always there. This is a problem. The communities tell us this constantly. They want more of us in fact. They want to see us. They want us present but we're not there. We're not there because we're not funded to be there. It may be one community—a small community albeit—and two officers may be funded for that community. But two officers only provide so many hours of coverage a week. The reality of this is that there are a lot of gaps. With gaps and a lack of policing presence there is no law. It's a sense of lawlessness. It's a lack of a sense of security and safety. Even if you wanted to report it who are you going to report it to? If you do report it who's going to be there to safeguard you? Who's going to be there to help you? And it's not just for the first few hours or the first day but the next day, and the day after that, and the week after that.