Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Perhaps I'll deal just briefly with both, first with the community constable program. There is an evaluation being done to assess the effectiveness of those initiatives and the possibility of the transfer into other communities. They are really designed along the lines of the community police auxiliary, to increase the level of community involvement and assisting the RCMP in carrying out their responsibilities.
The First Nations policing policy is quite different. It actually contemplates the placement of an aboriginal police force within communities, and in a number of communities across the south now, those police forces are beginning to develop. There are some in Alberta, some in the province of Quebec, and in Ontario. The nature of them vary. For example, the funding that is received in Akwasasne supports a somewhat different model than what exists in Littlewood in British Columbia where a similar mechanism has been put in place as well.
There is some real financial incentive for us to be pursuing the negotiations that we've been involved with. As you know, the usual contract for police services with the RCMP is based on a financial formula of 70 per cent for the territories and 30 per cent for the federal government. The arrangement under the First Nations policing policy is a 52 per cent/48 per cent arrangement, so if we can successfully implement some of those strategies in the NWT, it has the potential of giving us better value for our policing dollar.