Thank you. Just a few brief comments before we conclude the day. One of the Members had suggested earlier that we look at taking over prosecution from the federal government. There is a context that's very well articulated by Members to argue for that. As the Minister of Justice I think we'll be reviewing that particular item and how it fits into this overall strategy of zero tolerance, and why we need to have some capability and influence in that area in order to make it round out our approach. If it's going to be holistic in that regard, then we definitely need to be able to have prosecutions as part of the responsibilities of this government.
There is a comment I want to make. I appreciate Mr. Gargan's comments about how we might require good luck to try to enforce some of the legislation we make and propose in the future. It's my view that aboriginal people, for instance, in northern societies have, for a long time, exercised non-legislative laws. They have made decrees about the things that are acceptable and not acceptable in families and in the communities. I think that's an area where we're going to lend a lot of credence to. I know communities and people have decided certain things are acceptable and not acceptable. They work very well and those are self-enforcing. The move that we're making today, I hope, will slowly let us see less need for police, courts, lawyers, jails and perhaps even a decrease in the need for treatment programs, and that these will lend themselves to other areas that need more resources.
First and foremost, from here we need -- and I've already made a commitment publicly that once these commitments are made by this Legislature and Members of this House, that we're going to have a basis of understanding -- to commit to developing a process, cooperatively with the groups, like the group we have in front of us today. I think the Minister of Social Services, and other Ministers, will be joining me in trying to find ways in which we can try to develop a strategy on how we're going to go about doing our work. They're involved in it, they define where they think the priorities should be, the way we should target the work and how it should be resourced so we're not targeting things that are not priorities of these groups. We give them a voice and we commit to hearing them, and to letting them -- as a group that's been ignored too long -- have a say at the highest political level, from the beginning of this process, that being today. Thank you.