Mr. Chairman, I had said earlier to another Member, and all the Members here, that in my view, every community in the territories should have a police officer present in their community. Whether or not there is any reported crime within that community, I believe that it is a right for elders, and senior citizens to have the comfort of knowing that there is somebody that can provide security, in times when there are unwanted visitors or strangers coming into communities, and weekend disruptions to the social life of communities. I think, women and children have to have that comfort of knowing that there is somebody there that they can go to in times when they feel unsafe, threatened.

I just want to say it again, I have met with the R.C.M.P. and both the R.C.M.P. and ourselves have said that in spite of limited dollars we would like, and we will work towards, trying to find some way to put R.C.M.P. back in Wrigley. One of the problems that the Member should be aware of, in the view of the R.C.M.P., the present facilities there are not adequate. They have great difficulty in recruiting and placing single members in communities by themselves.

If you have a single person, like an unmarried man, staffing a single man detachment, it is a male officer, then the Superintendent of the R.C.M.P. feels that it is not what they want to provide to the community, or demand of their officers. So, there is a reluctance there, but, also, the present facility in Wrigley is not, in their view anyway, adequate as housing accommodations and there is not an adequate office, or even an overnight detention centre.

Those have to be addressed. I would like to talk to the community about what could be done to address this issue. If there are efforts to provide adequate housing, which the federal government usually provides to the R.C.M.P., if there is some way the community or private developers could build houses and office space to lease to R.C.M.P., then the Government of the Northwest Territories would provide the money to lease these facilities. It has to be agreeable to the R.C.M.P.

If this government, and this Legislature, are the ones who are short the dollars to put the R.C.M.P. there, and everything else has been worked out, then we will certainly come back to let the Members know.