Justice committee  I have one question, if I could, Mr. Chair. I understand you're going to be wrapping up and putting a paper together, a position paper. Is there a possibility, if we get our paper together, that we can forward that to you?

Justice committee  I'm wondering what your deadline would be for that.

Justice committee  Thank you. Mayor Watts, Mayor Robertson, Mayor Fassbender, Mayor Corrigan from Burnaby, and I are undertaking all of this work and we're hoping to have it completed so that all of the mayors in the region can approve what we're going to be sending to you. It will hopefully be a

Justice committee  As long as you're here to help—

Justice committee  —each other, as well.

Justice committee  It was specialized forces.

Justice committee  Legalize, did you say?

Justice committee  Absolutely not.

Justice committee  I think the police chief from Delta probably has a few things to say about that.

Justice committee  We all want to answer that.

Justice committee  I'm not sure if you're talking about grow operations exactly. Are you talking about recidivism, how we're dealing with that, and how we're all working together to try to make that happen?

Justice committee  One of the big problems I saw when I became mayor in 2000 was we had 200 grow operations in an area of 50,000 people in the North Delta area where I live. We undertook zero tolerance, and our police department shut them all down eventually. I went into a lot of these places, an

Justice committee  I'll take the opportunity to try to respond to that. I would say probably eight or nine years ago the great grey wave came. That means there were unprecedented numbers of officers who were retiring. We had a huge problem with that in the Delta police force, and we had to obviou

Justice committee  Exactly.

Justice committee  Yes.