Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The issue of having trained paramedics, I guess, staff and ambulance services in communities funded by the federal government, has the department selected the communities yet? If not, what process are they using to select the communities? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Is the vision of the department, in putting positions to this program, on a voluntary basis? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So it is a voluntary basis, because most of our firefighters in the communities are volunteers. Is my assumption correct? Thank you.

Thank you. The Minister stated that it is in the same manner as a fire department responding to a fire. In most of the communities, fire service is on a voluntary basis. I am asking, if that is consistent with the new program the Minister is referring to, then I am assuming it is on a voluntary basis. I am asking the Minister if it is a voluntary basis or a pay position or positions. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. A community like Fort Resolution would be ideally located to have such a service. However, I would suggest that this would be a paid service. If you are following the firefighters and volunteer firefighters example, I believe the only place in the Territories that pays their firefighters is here in Yellowknife. That scenario will not work in terms of creating employment opportunities in communities.

However, I would like to get into the emergency service division preparedness, community emergencies. How often does the emergency measures organization, which is responsible for developing GNWT emergency response plans, go into communities and go through the emergency response plans with communities that have been developed at the community level? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We have two positions that are really involved in the emergency measures section. They do travel into the communities and review the plans. For instance, last year, when we were coming up to flood season and there was a chance of floods happening, we sent our people out to those communities to make sure they went through their plans with them, to make sure the community was ready and that the plan was up to date, in terms of being prepared for that type of situation.

With the new arrangements for emergency measures that were approved over a year ago now, they involve going into communities with the one officer position we have to help them, with a template, basically, of how to complete and update their plan.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That is good to know. It is something you do not have to worry about when there is an emergency at the community level, what the reaction of the people would be. It is good to know that something is being done to get everybody on the same page.

In the area of emergency response on the lake, is the department working with the community of Lutselk'e to provide such a service? Too often, Mr. Chairman, we get emergency beacons and people going out looking for people who broke down on the East Arm of Great Slave Lake. With Lutselk'e being ideally located, and the fact that the waters between here and the Devil's Channel are often rough, making it very difficult to go through by boat from here, that makes Lutselk'e an ideal location. Is the department working with the community in its responsibility of emergency response on the Great Slave Lake? Thank you.