Justice committee  Again, it's the responsibility of those who are overseeing the RCMP and the training of new recruits. Independent police—and Vancouver and Delta are two, including Abbotsford and some of the others—go out and interview. We look for people in our own municipalities, and we train our own people at the Justice Institute, which is a very fine facility.

Justice committee  It's hard for us to prioritize when we don't have the requests in front of us, Mr. Dhaliwal. I am concerned because I don't have the list before me, but I think we can safely say that every one of our 22 mayors in the lower mainland is absolutely committed to the comments made in Ottawa by the Attorney General and Solicitor General.

Justice committee  Thank you very much, and thank you for the opportunity to be here. My name is Lois Jackson and I am the Mayor of Delta, the chair of metro Vancouver's board of directors, and the chair of the mayors committee for Vancouver. Metro Vancouver mayors represent 23 municipalities and one first nations territory, and we represent over 1,100 square miles of land.