Canada-China Relations committee  In most of those areas—in the big municipalities—it's up to the police of jurisdiction to provide safety within their communities. For the RCMP, our role is to gather the information. We have to make sure in our engagement with the public that they feel safe to bring that inform

Canada-China Relations committee  No, our role is doing the investigation. That's why it's important for people to bring the information to us, so we can initiate an investigation and complete the investigation with a goal—

Canada-China Relations committee  I don't have that at my level. People have used that phone number. We will follow up on every investigation and every lead that we get. These are complicated investigations. They're not as straightforward as one would think.

Canada-China Relations committee  Absolutely.

Canada-China Relations committee  I can't give you any of the information regarding the investigation to protect the methods—

Canada-China Relations committee  In the media, they've referred to them as police stations. For us, it's any place that causes interference, intimidation or harassment in any form. It's not a police station how we define a police station. In some of these cases, it could be as simple as a room behind a commercia

Canada-China Relations committee  No. So far to date there have been three in the greater Toronto area and one in Vancouver.

Canada-China Relations committee  I don't know the specifics of the investigations you're referring to, but what I can say is that, of course, we have to meet the threshold of our Criminal Code if, in fact, we are going to lay charges. We have several Criminal Code offences that can be leveraged, such as breach o