Thank you, Madam Chairperson. To follow up on comments Mr. Ningark made regarding a program or policy that would be better suited for northerners, a program that would be as it relates to search and rescue that we made in the north for northerners. I could not agree with the Member more. We hear stories of individuals being lost on the land, and unfortunately they passed on, they died. The families would wait for the body to be brought back to the community. They would be told they would have to wait for hours and sometimes the next day because the RCMP, for example, would have to also go out there and verify the circumstances of the death and so on and so forth which causes a great deal of pain for the families.
Moving on, a question regarding funding for the local search and rescue groups in the various communities, how is the funding calculated? How do you arrive at the amount? Does it vary from community to community, and who makes a decision as to which group receives the funding? There could be more than one search and rescue group in the community.