Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I, too, feel that this is great legislation, but I, too, also have the same concerns of Mr. McLeod. I feel that we have to also have the tools in place to enforce our legislation, especially where we find out that the majority of our communities in the Northwest Territories don't even have breathalyzer equipment. Also in regards to having the resources to put into the policing or the enforcement of the legislation by having highway patrols or road checks or other means of trying to catch those people who are impaired on our highway systems, our road systems in the Northwest Territories. Mr. McLeod is right. In every community after 2:00 in the morning there is no policing in our communities. In order for that to happen, you have to call Yellowknife through an automated system and then hopefully you get the message through. By that time, the incident has occurred.

But I think we have to find ways of avoiding a number of deaths and incidents we have seen on our highway system because of people being impaired, also in our communities where we've had some major accidents involving snowmobiles. I think that we as a Legislative Assembly have to do more than just pass legislation. We also have to direct people that are going to use that legislation to ensure they have the resources and they have the equipment to do the job we're asking them to do.

I feel that we pass legislation time and time again with great intentions. But if the legislation is not going to be used because of a lack of equipment, such as breathalyzers or other means of increasing our patrols on our highway systems or increasing the patrols on our road systems in our communities so that we can catch these people, then we will have to do more than just pass legislation.

As for the Minister, I know he's made the comment that he's been talking to the Minister of Justice, but I think that we have to realize that there are communities out there, and the communities I represent such as Tsiigehtchic that is on the highway system and is a prohibition community. We have legislation that allows a community to ask to have prohibition where no alcohol is allowed. Yet, the RCMP are not enforcing that legislation and it is the legislation of this government. I think it is important as a government that when we pass legislation we ensure that it meets the original objectives.

So, I would like to ask the Minister exactly, is there a means or way that we can look at the budgeted amount of dollars that we spend on policing and direct some of those dollars to enforcement of this type of legislation? Has the government ever looked at that?