Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, as was noted in the committee report, when we talked to the Minister during the review of the draft main estimates, there was a commitment made that the department would move to present the case for increased funding for improved police services in the next business plan.
I know that Nunavut recently announced an extra $3.5 million in spending in order to add 14 officers. I am not sure that they waited for another year for that to happen. I think the announcement was that was happening right away.
I wanted to press the Minister to see if there was any opportunity for him to make the case in advance of the business plan and look to coming back for supplementary funding in order to deal with this urgent police issue. It is something we have heard a lot from Members around the Territories, that this is a problem that is in small communities, it is in big communities, it is a problem in the larger communities. We really do have a problem with the level of police services. I guess the question is can we see some results before the next budget?