Thank you very much to the member across for the question. In Bill 102, there is language in there about actually creating a police outfit that is going to be less educated and less trained. What I have been advocating for and what I keep speaking about is neighbourhood community policing—community policing that works in partnership with the community and partners to deliver better, more effective community policing and that creates safer communities. We do that by also investing in public services and investing in community supports.

You’re wasting their time. This government is absolutely wasting their time by not investing in the social determinants of health, which are exactly the same as the social determinants of safety. You want to make it easier on the police? You actually invest in housing and social services.

But this bill actually is going to erode the type of officers, the high calibre of officers that we need by asking less of them. At the same time, you’re offering them and you’re making them do more work that’s not core policing work. That’s why I am so passionate about supporting the investments in social services so we can actually build safer communities in partnership with the police.

But guess what? Because those orders of government, including this one, are colossally failing in investing in deeply affordable housing with social supports, we see that the police are picking up the pieces. You’re not giving them the resources to do their job. The resources to do their job are more housing and more supports.