Mr. Speaker, the $115 million in the budget for the RCMP will not even meet its existing needs, let alone its projected increases.
The auditor general said:
There are delays of more than two months in entering records of new criminals and new crimes of old criminals into the system, and some files have taken over five months.
The reason for the backlog is a lack of available funds to hire staff.
Why is it this government finds billions of dollars for so-called job creation through HRDC, but will not create the necessary jobs in the RCMP?