Thank you for the question.
We police, as you know, a majority of Manitoba's rural communities and first nations communities. I think there are a couple of very important points we have to get across, certainly relative to policing and partnerships. I think the first is with regard to perceptions training for the police. Every year we participate in and give as many of our officers as possible aboriginal perceptions training. It's important that they understand the communities in which they serve and the issues and how aboriginal first nations people view them and vice versa. I think certainly that's the first step.
But as far as the safety issue in communities goes, a lot of our more isolated northern communities in Manitoba are policed by a detachment that in some cases has to fly in or we have to do visitations into the communities. I've heard it said, certainly, that in some instances some people don't feel safe, of course, because we're not there all the time. But we do the best we can with the service level we have in those communities, and we try our best to provide safety to not only aboriginal women and men but also the children in those communities by getting into the schools and doing those things.