Mr. Speaker, I think there are things that we can do as a government to assist the RCMP and there are a number of things that we have been involved in doing. One that I would point to is the use of our officers at our corrections facilities to escort prisoners as compared to asking uniformed RCMP officers to do this. So we've come up with an arrangement that allows the RCMP officers to stay on the ground, as the Member has indicated, in the community and not have to do this escort of prisoners function.
The RCMP have civilian staff who handle most of the clerical work and they have RCMP uniformed staff who, for the most part, don't do that type of work, although there is some paperwork involved. There's a committee that's been struck. Our government sits on that to look at how we can work on some efficiencies. I think we all share the Member's point or goal that we want the RCMP as much as possible doing police work on the streets. Of course, we know that uniformed members will end up taking victim statements, witness statements, those kinds of things. Paperwork, Mr. Speaker. But as much as possible, it's to all of our benefit that we minimize the amount of paperwork that they're doing. We are participating in that committee and I hope that we'll have some good results. Thank you.