To the member from Hamilton Mountain: You had spoken a little bit about the COAST program in your community. We have something that’s very similar in Waterloo region—just by a different name: the IMPACT program. It does have a very substantial impact in our community. I know that there has been funding to our IMPACT program through the Ministry of Health and through the Ministry of the Solicitor General.

I know that Hamilton’s program, as well, was able to receive funding that they applied for over the last few years. I’d just like to get her thoughts on that program and how she sees it working a little bit better in her community.

I want to thank my colleague the member for Hamilton Mountain. You know your community so well, and you do such amazing work, so I want to congratulate you on being such a fantastic MPP for your constituents.

I know that the time went so quickly for you and that you wanted to talk a lot about Bill 74, the vulnerable persons alert act. So I’m going to just give you a few minutes, if you’d like to say some things that you haven’t said—how you hope that the government will implement this, the background to this, why it’s such an important bill, and why it’s a perfectly fit and corollary to this bill that we’re debating today about keeping communities safe.

Thank you to the member opposite for her comments. I’m happy to see that she supports the initiative for recruiting more police.

My question to the member opposite goes to the training. During the justice policy hearings on Bill 102, we heard from a number of police associations and police chiefs that the average age for recruitment in Ontario is 29; in the city of Toronto, it’s around 26. What they talked about was the fact that imposing a university or a post-secondary degree puts financial barriers in front of a number of applicants for a number of reasons. They want to make sure that they’re recruiting from all aspects of our society so that the police force reflects the communities they’re serving. My question to the member opposite is: Does she support removing—well, it’s not in place, but the removal of the post-secondary degree to make sure we have recruits from all segments of the population?