Nationally, I understand, Mr. Chairman, that RCMP headquarters are looking at bringing back special constables. We know from our regional policing consultation exercise that there's a lot of support for that in the North. So this would have to be reconstituted. Of course, as I indicated, we're very supportive and we hope that special constables will be brought back. I would just point out that most likely special constables, if we can bring them back, would be effective at adding to the police presence in a community, or be in addition to regular police officers, not a substitute for regular police officers in this day and age. So we know the requirement is for two-member detachments. We are trying to look outside the box.

The discussion here today in the House about Parks Canada employees or wildlife officers, other peace officers, this is something that I want to pursue with my colleagues in Cabinet and with the federal government. If we can find and come up with a model that looks at one regular officer and a peace officer, I think that could be an effective solution, and then we'd like to see in addition to that special constables brought in, because we really think they can be an enhancement. They were well received in the North and we would like to see them come back, but it would be in that support role, Mr. Chairman, as compared to having them replace officers or have detachments where it was only special constables in a detachment. We don't think that that is probably realistic. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.