Mr. Speaker, the Member would know that in answering the question I had also said that I would provide in writing as much detail as possible about the way that inmates are incarcerated and some detail involving their daily activities, what they are allowed and not allowed to do, under what terms and conditions and try to provide as much information to the Member as possible. In this particular instance, the inmate benefitted from the fact that there is an exchange of services agreement. If there was no exchange of services agreement, all inmates who are serving more than two years would automatically be serving their time down south. There is an exchange of services agreement and it has benefitted many of our northern inmates. I will bring to the attention of Members on the other side that in this particular

case, this inmate that a couple of Members of this House have zeroed in on over the last few months is, in fact, a person who has grown up, been educated and lived almost her entire life here in the Northwest Territories. This is home to this particular inmate.

As far as the exchange agreement is concerned, there are some general provisions as to how you become eligible to benefit from this agreement, but specifically, it is because this is a first time offender, this is an inmate who does not present a risk to the public, that has no previous or limited experience in prison, that has been almost a life time resident of the Northwest Territories and, for this reason, the agreement has been able to provide for this particular inmate. Thank you.