Mr. Chairman, if I could just make note of the previous Member's comments. Mr. Ningark, I understand, is suggesting that we should look at the suggestion that if we had more women R.C.M.P. officers in the communities, it may lend a more positive element, particularly to the female population of the communities who need, perhaps greater sensitivity, than most members of the community perceive the male R.C.M.P. officers to have.

He says that this may be a positive element to suggest to the R.C.M.P. in their recruitment policies. I think it is a very good suggestion, and I will pass that on to the senior people in the R.C.M.P. division here.

With respect to Mr. Nerysoo's question regarding Arctic Red River. I met with the Chief from Arctic Red River a couple of weeks ago, and the chief raised the same point as well. What I had said is that, in my view, I believe that every community in the Northwest Territories, whether they have any level of crime or not, reported crime, that they deserve to have some police presence in that community.

The problem is, of course, that this government, and Legislature, have never had the adequate resources to implement that. In fact, we do not really have a full say, anyway, in the way that the resources we allocate to the R.C.M.P., are used. In regard to Arctic Red River, it was one of the communities that was pointed out to the Chief Superintendent of the R.C.M.P. when I met with him. I know that housing, and office space, is one of the additional problems that we are faced with.

If we lay out money to make an officer available, and the R.C.M.P. agree to place that individual in Arctic Red River, we still have the added problem that we need capital money to build an office, and adequate housing. Right now, I understand that the federal government has to provide it, but there is a possibility that the community may take their own initiative to make those types of facilities available for lease. This was discussed with the chief, when I met with him a few weeks ago.