Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The department, through its compliance branch which is within this budget area, is responsible for the compliance of motor carrier or commercial traffic on the highway system and all aspects of that motor carrier compliance pursuant to regulation and statutes, both national and territorial.
The requirement for compliance by the general public or the motoring public is with the RCMP. That is established through the contract with the Government of the Northwest Territories for enforcement on the highway system and elsewhere.
A further authority exists with the delegation of enforcement authority to communities through bylaw and the ability for communities to have enforcement staff on their employment list to enforce those.
Overall, there is a series of ways to enforce. The RCMP at this point, we understand, have increased their presence on the territorial highway system at the request and continued pressure of the Government of the Northwest Territories, both through the Department of Justice and through the Department of Transportation. We are very pleased with the cooperation the RCMP has provided. They have also assigned some oversight to one of the detachments to look at how, in the long term, enforcement can best be handled on such a large system. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.