Thank you. In terms of the level of -- or the number of police and the level of crime, we're trying to catch up to the level of crime. And so it is not that more police aren't helping the situation, but the crime rate is rising. We heard yesterday for an hour about the impact drugs are having on communities. I don't need to speak any further to that. That was discussed.

In terms of the increases to the RCMP budget, the way this works is that the RCMP, they look at their operations across the territory, they identify areas where they're feeling pressure, and we've seen some communities with spikes in crime that have been sustained, and they -- there needs to be an increase in the presence in those communities to help deal with the volume of calls. Officers get burnt out, things like that, so. And when that situation arises, the RCMP put together a business case, they bring it to the Department of Justice, and work with the Department of Justice to figure out how they can bring forward something for the Cabinet, for FMB, and for this House to approve. And so there's a bit of back and forth. But it is very much an evidence-based process.

In terms of the crime reduction unit, there have been some changes to the reporting structure in the RCMP. If we had no contract police service, if we -- if the GNWT did not hire the RCMP to be our police force, there would still be RCMP in the territory because the federal government has federal RCMP who focus on areas that the federal government wants to focus on. And so those areas of focus are things like organized crime, money laundering, guns. And so those -- that federal unit now is operating a little more independently from the G-division but still working with G-division. And so this crime reduction unit is going to fill the little -- the bit of a void that was left there, but also supplement the existing resources, because now we have the federal unit that can work with the crime reduction unit because we're seeing things like organized crime, like drugs. So this really is an enhancement of our services based on the needs that we're seeing.

In addition, there are sometimes increases based on new standards. So if the RCMP come up with a new standard saying we need this many officers in a community at any given time, then we need to bring forward an appropriation for that many officers if we need to bring the numbers up. Thank you.