Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for being here.
I'd like to direct my first question to Staff Sergeant Brown. As a former mayor, I had a very close relationship with all the staff sergeants in my community. I was reading about some of the symptoms of stress in this magazine. I recognize those in the corporate world, and I can tell you what that stress is from: fatigue, overwork, being under-resourced. I'm talking a bit about preventatives, rather than about treating a patient.
How much work is really being done to address that? Quite often the RCMP is understaffed. The duty watch is very challenging. Members get burned out. It affects their family, and then you have the stress problem, but if you get to the root of the problem, it's the fact that they're working too much.
Could you please answer that question?