Thank you, Mr. Chairman. On police services, one of the departmental goals is that the people of the Northwest Territories are protected through adequate police services. As stated in one of the books here, it is one of the goals of the Department of Justice. With the policing services, and the amount of money that we are talking about here, $23.980 million, the people that I represent in my constituency, and there are six communities, only two of these communities have police services. They are Fort Simpson, and Fort Liard. There used to be a police service station in Wrigley, but they have been pulled out of that community because of funding, not enough funding to provide for a position.

Recently there was an announcement that, some of the communities that did not have R.C.M.P. in them, are going to have R.C.M.P. members placed in these communities. I was disappointed, because Wrigley has been asking for an R.C.M.P. to be posted there for quite awhile. There was not any police service placed there.

The other concern is that the community of Fort Liard had lost one member, they had three, and now they just have two. The community of Liard also has concerns that, with the decrease to two, it will be very difficult for the R.C.M.P. members out of Liard to perform their duties adequately. I say this because Fort Liard is a community next to one of the entrances into the Northwest Territories, via a highway out of B.C. There is a need sometimes to patrol the highway. With one less member there, I am told by the community, that it is going to be very difficult for two members to do all of this type of work.

I am addressing the lack of adequate police services, as stated as one of your goals. If the Minister would want to comment on these two particular communities of mine, that lack adequate police service at this present time.