Public Safety committee  I'm Métis from Manitoba.

Public Safety committee  It's a rich cultural experience working in aboriginal communities. As was alluded to earlier, for the people who love it, they love it. I spent over 10 years doing isolated police posts, from manning a dogsled to going on the land to caribou hunt and going on a trapline. These were wonderful experiences.

Public Safety committee  That's correct. The portion of the training that they don't complete has to do with the paper aspect of the job, core package completion, search warrant completion, and the like. The intent is that they're visible in the community, that they're not sitting at a terminal with a slow line speed trying to get all the data entered into our records management system.

Public Safety committee  We're in the infancy of this program right now. It's a pilot project, and at this juncture we actually only have six aboriginal community constables. We're now in the process of recruitment for our second phase of this pilot. Being that the pilot group is as small as it is, we still have to undertake an assessment of that program, subsequent to the second troop.

Public Safety committee  They are a separate troop; they're a distinct troop, but certainly a number of their training components have no variance from what a regular member goes through.

Public Safety committee  It's a 21-week program. It's only a few weeks shy of the full training for an RM.

Public Safety committee  It is done in Regina, yes. It's a specialty really. It's a focus on community engagement and crime prevention. As was mentioned, they do have the tactical capacity to support our membership. They receive all the same firearms training, and all the same police operations training, as far as motor vehicles are concerned.

Public Safety committee  Superintendent.

Public Safety committee  We had a difference of about $121,000 versus $217,000.