Mr. Speaker, I would like to raise another side to this question. Rural communities like those in Caribou—Chilcotin often do without police services because there is no money for budgets in the larger detachments. I think of places with interesting names like Gold Bridge and Horsefly, but when there is a crisis in such communities it will be an hour or two hours minimum before policemen can respond after driving the distance to get there.
I have been watching the government cut its expenditures. The difficulty is that while frontline services are being cut senior bureaucrats and research people are finding more resources for their needs.
Does the member see a correlation between the increase in crime and the lack of necessary funds for policemen to meet this challenge?