Madam Speaker, for those who were in attendance at the briefing this morning, the message from the RCMP was that throwing money and more resources at the problem at this time is not the only answer, and that we have to look at other avenues to address why we need policing in the first place and the root causes of why we are called on to look at even more policing across the north at this time.

There is no time line, per se. We hope that the winter O and M budget will see a correction in the funding deficiency that the RCMP have been working under for the last few years, that we will finally resolve that. We hope that in the next month or two, we will be able to see the RCMP bill paid for the Giant Mine strike, which at this time the RCMP are having to absorb. It is becoming increasingly difficult for them to operate with that bill unpaid. And, there are surely other suggestions that are going to be made by communities on alternative policing mechanisms, and at this time they have not been made. Thank you.