Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Briefly to respond to the honourable Member with respect to his comments on a community-based justice system, we're fully supportive of that. That's a direction we want to go. He mentioned sending people out on the land to help the community by harvesting on behalf of the community. I think that all falls part and parcel into the community empowerment and wellness initiatives that this whole government is trying to promote. I wouldn't have any arguments on that matter with him.
I think the issue he had raised on the value of RCMP officers, I think we all recognize that; particularly in the smaller communities. There is a potential future problem there, in discussion with some of the senior RCMP officials with respect to their concern about the safety of their members. For single-detachment members, it's no secret that they've mentioned in the past about the possibility of having to look at closing down some of these single-member detachments because of the lack of support mechanisms for their members who are there. There is concern for their safety.
I think one of the things which is a positive step that the Department of Justice and other departments such as MACA have been working on, as I indicated in my opening statement, is the community constable training initiatives; trying to upgrade some of the by-law officer positions we have; trying to develop some of the aboriginal constable components that we have available to us; to try to provide some support to the RCMP members who are in these communities is critical to the overall policing system that we have in place. So I just wanted to point that out to the honourable Member, Mr. Chairman. Thank you.