Mr. Garfield Dunlop (Simcoe North): I'm very pleased to rise today and welcome the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police to Queen's Park on their annual day at Queen's Park. I would particularly like to congratulate Chief Terry McLaren of the city of Peterborough Police Services for a job well done.

Each year we see the chiefs here, and we listen to their concerns and the issues that they face. Usually, there are issues around financing and resources. I just finished a quick meeting with maybe 18 of the police chiefs in Ontario and listened to a number of the concerns they have, many of them around court security, maybe some problems around CSOs, the possibility that they'd like to see a pawnbrokers act brought into effect. I can tell you that our party will be working very closely with the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police as they try to implement a number of the recommendations they brought forward too.

I want to say today, on behalf of John Tory and our caucus: Welcome to Queen's Park. We're listening carefully to the concerns you have and we will work very hard over the next eight or 10 months, putting some of the concerns you have into our platform so that when we form the next government we'll be able to handle your issues.