Thank you. What we're going to be looking at...As I say, the review is a result of concerns raised by the Members from Yellowknife, but also from places like Nahendeh, Deh Cho and others such as in the High Arctic where communities have no police presence whatsoever. I agree, it should not be and it is not a small community or Yellowknife sort of scenario. I just raised it, and it shouldn't be negatively translated into that sort of a set-up.
My own impression is that Yellowknife is the biggest aboriginal community in the Northwest Territories. Many of my constituents and certainly every Member of this House has large numbers of constituents living here in Yellowknife. It is all of our obligations, I hope, to recognize that. I think even Mr. Todd would agree with me.
There are communities, for instance, that are the same size in the Northwest Territories which have two or three times the number of members that an equivalent community with the same population has. There are reasons for that, but I'm not sure what the reasons are. In some communities there are six members and in other places there are one or two where there are the same number of people. Some are more restless, perhaps, but there are reasons for it and I would like to know what the reasons are and have a good discussion on it, and see, if anything, at some time or other people need to take more responsibility. I don't know what would happen if in some communities we just served notice that over a period of two or three years we're going to start withdrawing the number of members assigned to the community, and that we will await some innovative solutions for them to suggest what would help them bring down the need for the level of policing that they've historically had. I would like to look at things like that.
I know in Yellowknife we're just talking about the youth justice committee. We need to look at things like that and other projects. The community justice specialist was helping us to try to come up with some suggestions from Dettah for things we could use to work with the youth for crime prevention-type projects. Those are the kinds of things we need as well. I don't know if that is a response the Member would feel satisfied with.
But, in the end we're not disregarding the calls for more policing. We are going to look at it. As I say, we're drafting a terms of reference. I would be prepared to make a draft terms of reference available to Members so they can comment on them before we do anything with them. Thank you.