Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I know the support to victims of crime through victims services have been there for some time, and we know there is a need to increase support to victims of crime.
We have already undertaken to try new initiatives to try to alleviate and to provide those services as widely as we can in the North. We announce a new initiative like new forms in plain language. We have a part-time staff being hired to assist program review and implementations. We are working to try to establish funded programs in Hay River and Inuvik as well.
We know there is a need to provide those services on a wider basis than we have, so that is what we have done. We are hosting a major conference here at the end of this month on March 28th to 29th. There will be representatives of different victims services agencies from around where we have that program as part of the planned committee, to try to draw different organizations there that are very concerned about this area to come to this conference. It might be a starting point to see what the concerns are out there, and hopefully we will have some good recommendations and directions from that conference.
We did not talk of doing a review of that. Perhaps the conference will be attended by people who would be there to give us direction. If there was a need for review as a result of that, we will certainly consider it at that time. Thank you.