Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I just wanted to make a few comments in support of this legislation. I understand and appreciate that there are lots of other issues that are not being addressed with this and I must agree, with the lack of RCMP services in many areas and the City of Yellowknife, that opens up a whole new debate. The shortage of RCMP and its implication to this bill was also addressed in the committee's report.

Having been a member of this committee that reviewed the bill, I concur with the points made in the report and I do not want to repeat all of the statements made in the committee report and by the other Members around the table here. I think that, regardless of shortages or shortfalls, this is a great piece of legislative work. It is very progressive and advanced in comparison to similar law in other jurisdictions and we should be proud of making it come to reality.

Mr. Minister mentioned earlier about the long time that it has taken for this bill to get to where it is now and it has been so long that we have had whole different sets of SADD members coming and making presentations to us because some of them probably started and graduated from high school. I think it is high time that we did this.

I would also just like to mention again our appreciation for the people who appeared before us. The organization of SADD, who has been a major force behind this initiative, has appeared before us many times. We also had the help of the Northwest Territories Coroner's Office and the RCMP and the Salvation Army, and I really want to express my appreciation again for their work. So, I am not going to say much more than that, Mr. Chairman. I support this legislation and I would like to thank the Minister and the department for working on it and seeing it through. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.