Madam Speaker, I lived through that personally. Over those six years I did see the morale of the people working for me decline seriously. It will recover a little bit now.
It is not only the serving uniformed members that cause a drop in the policing on our streets. The government is failing to take care of the non-uniformed people, the public servants who still have not had a raise. These are the people with the lower salaries I was talking about earlier. Their poor morale reflects up to the members. The members' poor morale reflects to the general public. There are more complaints against the members. Everything the government should have done it did not do over the past two or three years and now we are in the situation of trying to fix everything.
There is no real change in the government's attitude. It is still one of keeping the rich and elite happy and letting the little guys fight for themselves.