Yes. You know, to an extent I was kidding with you, but I've made that reference so much that it usually gets a little laugh.
The truth of it is that for our female members there's still a lot of ostracization over the fact that they're going to be away for a fixed period of time to have a child. Now we also do male-hunting when the wife comes back to work and the male wants to take paternity leave. You know what happens now? It's both. We say, “Well, in my day, I never took that stuff”, but these are benefits that they're entitled to, and I'm glad they can enjoy them. The trouble is that in a detachment in Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia, with four people, if you have your female member down--probably the only female in Sherbrooke--then she's gone for a minimum of a year, if there's no splitting of leave. We have no replacement for that.
For a number of years--probably 15 years now--we've been working on resourcing formulas, and there were none in the police industry. We created a resourcing formula so that we could go to the contracting partner, ask them to tell us what kind of service they wanted, and pump that into a resourcing formula. We can factor in things like family leave, compassionate leave, training time, or court time. If the town says they also want someone on bicycle patrol, we can factor that in and tell them that for the duties they want in their contract, we will need x number of members. However, that formula is not being executed in that fashion, so those are difficulties.
Peter, regarding the two members who just recently got washed off the rocks in Peggy's Cove while trying to save that young fellow, both of those members haven't returned to work yet. One of them was thrown pretty hard against the rocks there in the Atlantic Ocean. Those two men went to save that guy who got washed off the rocks, and one of them was hurt fairly badly. As Brad said--and I thank him for it--this is what happens every day in theatre.