The impact of the closure was short-lived thankfully, but the reopening had the greatest impact on our members. As I mentioned, in 2019, in those three short years since they had been reopened, 13,000 members received service or care through those offices. The fact is that Canada is such a large country and the RCMP's membership, as well as a lot of the membership of the Canadian Armed Forces, serve everywhere. We need to keep that in mind when we're talking about service delivery that's dealing with the hearts, the minds and the souls of people who gave service to Canada.
On November 16th, 2020. See this statement in context.