Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My question deals more with policy than the planning of this division, so it falls within the directorate. The reason I am asking my question is, there have been attempts made by the people I represent in the Mackenzie Delta region to look at the possibility of some mechanism for looking at proposals. They were considering looking at the whole area of developing infrastructures. The proposal that was put forth by Fort Resolution and Aklavik, there was something like $50,000 spent to look at developing such a proposal at one time. It seemed like the policy of this government has been changed and they basically backed away from that proposal. I see there are initiatives such as the Gwich'in who have developed the Tl'oondih healing camp, which cost them in the area of $2 million. There already is a facility built and the only cost to this government will be for operating the camp facility and securing the inmates, which is no additional cost of where we see in the budget of over $2 million, which is going to go to pay for the extra cost that has been associated through supplementary appropriation because of the costs to this government of the amount of inmates we have versus the amount of guards and overtime that is being put in.
It is because of that initiative we should seriously consider looking at changes to the policy to allow for such proposals to come forth, if they are financially sound. I am asking the government if they would consider such a policy change in this government of looking at that type of arrangement to allow for the aboriginal organizations to develop infrastructures for the Department of Justice, which may already be built. Therefore, the cost to this government is only a matter of leasing the facility or the cost of guards and what not that will be needed to ensure the inmates are held securely.