Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, most communities in the Northwest Territories have a youth justice committee and, for the most part, young offenders are diverted to that committee. So residents in the community can decide what is an effective and appropriate manner of dealing with offenders. What it takes is an agreement or acknowledgement by the offender that they have committed an offence, and a willingness to work with the community to deal with that offence in an appropriate way. That is by far the biggest option that we have for young offenders in our communities across the North, but we are also operating
programming for young folks at risk. For instance, in Arctic Tern the staff there have developed some programming that is offered to young people who are at risk but who have not been charged with offences, to try and help them develop the skills that it will take to keep them out of the facility. So there is some programming that has been undertaken from our department to try and deal with people like this. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.