Thank you, Madam Chairperson. My question is in regard to an issue that was raised yesterday by Mr. Miltenberger and also by Mr. Henry a while back. Madam Chairperson, every week it seems we hear about some adventurer who is doing something more ridiculous than the next person trying to break records and what not: going to the North Pole by bicycle, up the Mackenzie River in a rubber raft, hot air balloons trying to travel around the world or sail boat racers going around one ocean to the next. It seems to me they have absolutely no regard for which country or which jurisdiction has to pay to save them when they get lost or something happens. Yesterday the response to Mr. Miltenberger's question was that we do not make people post

bonds if they are trying to reach the North Pole or anything like that.

I believe it does not matter who winds up searching for these people, whether it is the RCMP, the Armed Forces, community people or the Rangers; it is we, as tax payers in general, who are paying for this. It is time for the people like this to start paying their own way. I would ask whether the Minister would undertake to again contact RWED and the Department of Justice and attempt to ensure that some type of bond or something is put in place so that people who take unnecessary risks like this have to actually pay for their own emergency services and getting rescued.