Mr. Speaker, a police act, as I understand it, would allow for mechanisms and ways in which this government, municipalities and regional groups can provide for alternative policing than what we have presently. There is no act, just a contract for the RCMP to provide overall policing for the whole of the Northwest Territories. A police act would allow for that present scenario to continue and possibly with provisions for aboriginal police forces; for instance, the Yellowknife police force, which is a municipal police force. It would allow for regional or territorial police forces. So you may look at a police force for a particular region or the whole of a certain territory. At this time, as I said, we have looked at it and there has been some initial thought given to it, but we're not at the point where we can say with any certainty that we will get beyond that.
As Members know, we have an intensive amount of work to get done in the course of this session and before the next government, but we will, in our discussions with Yellowknife Members, perhaps be open to more discussions in order to flush out our thinking on it. We are prepared to consider a preliminary discussion paper for consideration of the next government as part of the transition paper, if that is what is being called for. Thank you.