Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There is certainly a problem there, the situation is that people want adequate police service. The situation in Wrigley cannot be solved at this present time, but as you say, there might be different ways of solving that problem, if the community could build a building, somehow get it financed, and make some arrangements to have it leased to the R.C.M.P. That might be a way of solving part of the problem, and getting a member in there. That is what I understand.

That problem could be worked on in the longer term, but the immediate term is that if a member cannot be put there, then the level of adequate police service has to increase to these smaller communities. We have Wrigley now with no police, Jean Marie, Nahanni Butte and Trout Lake; four communities with no police there. The way it works, I understand, is that there is a detachment in Simpson that has a few members, and anytime there is a problem, and one of these members is available, they will go into these smaller communities.

Likewise, in Fort Liard, they have two members to take care of the community and these other small communities as well. Even in the communities where there are detachments, I hear some complaints that at some hours when there is trouble, it is very difficult to get hold of a member, because their calls are forwarded to Yellowknife. It is very frustrating for people in communities, where the members live in the communities, and they have to talk to somebody in Yellowknife before they get some response.

That level of adequate police service has to increase. If you are going to take members from communities, and not increase the level of police response, then something is definitely wrong. I think, maybe, the Minister, and his department officials, should take a really close look at this particular area, and see if the level of adequate police service could increase, to the satisfaction of people in the communities.

What I am saying, if you have not heard me, Mr. Minister, while you are talking there, that if the level of service response could increase to make up for the members that pull out of the communities, that would help. At the present time, there are a lot of complaints that, when people do call, they are talking to somebody in Yellowknife, before they are talking to a member in the community. Something has to be done about that.