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.

I want to thank my colleague from Hamilton Mountain for her remarks. I want to note a particular piece the member talked about: her own community in Hamilton and the need for more police officers in that community in Hamilton. I’ve shared with the member before that I’ve got family in Hamilton, some on the Hamilton Mountain—two wonderful nephews. I’ve got a niece in Stoney Creek. Personally, but also professionally, I think it’s important that we stand up for the residents of Hamilton and make sure that the community is as safe as possible.

Some members of this House have, in the past, talked about defunding the police or diverting resources away from police and into other places.

I just want to give the member a chance to clarify her position. Does she think we should be defunding the police or putting more police officers on our streets?