Yes, thank you. One of the immediate problems with this new course that is required...You are required to take a course or pass a test in order to acquire what you call a certificate that would allow you to buy a gun. A good percentage of our population is unilingual. This course, as far as I can tell, is not going to be available in Inuktitut. So it immediately discriminates against all unilingual people in the Northwest Territories. The federal government

wants this course to go ahead, but it is just not suitable for the Northwest Territories.

There is no undertaking right now to have it translated or provided in, for instance, an Inuktitut language. The costs of providing the course across the north so that all people of the north have equal access to the course and to the test on a regular basis is tremendous. It means you have to send people out, a number of people out, on a regular basis throughout the north to sit down in a community a number of times a year for two to three days. I gather the course would run even longer if it's to be translated.

The logistics and the costs of providing this course haven't really been adequately addressed yet by this government and the federal government. Again, these things will be brought to the Minister's attention next week. He will be assured that all Members of this Legislature share the concern for safety and share the need to call nationally for safe handling of firearms storage. It will also be brought to his attention very clearly that there are polar bears wandering around the Northwest Territories. In some of the communities, as the Members say, right in the communities. There are bears still walking into my home town on a regular basis, as are wolves. Dogs are still attacked, people are still threatened by wildlife in many of our communities. It's a far cry from Toronto, Montreal, or Ottawa. The Minister will be told of these things that the Members are raising. Thank you.