All of our water detachments, as we call them, have vessels and have marine officers. However, do we have enough people out there? We absolutely do not.
You can look at the size of these water bodies and the number of water bodies that each detachment has. For instance, in the Muskokas, the number of water bodies they have is huge, as is the number of people who expect to see the police on their lake. We only have a small marine presence on the big three—Lake Rosseau, Lake Joseph and Lake Muskoka—and, of course, on the 22 to 28 smaller lakes in the area.
We need more officers. We need more boats. We need better boats. We need funding for sure. When we have those difficulties, we rely on our partners to have joint patrols. The MNR works alone.