Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I was in Tulita and I did serve on the justice committee. I know the struggles and aspirations of how to keep it going and keep the community informed as much as possible. Again, I cross my fingers on this pilot project that the community justice programs and the other programs that are in the communities have the support of this department and they can look at a smooth integration of the people back into the communities. I will always advocate for these wilderness camps to be as close as possible to the communities because I think out there in the bush the people that were hoping to serve there, that's the best way to get them back into society here. In terms of the wilderness camps, I know you don't allocate to specific regions, you allocate on proposals and I hope that my region, at least, someone has submitted a proposal to have a wilderness camp. I know I'm not too up to date on that, however, in saying that you have a facility here that was built a couple years ago down the road here in Yellowknife. It's a huge facility. I haven't looked at it yet. I hope that facility also helps our people. I made a visit to the YCC jail here and I talked to some of the inmates from the Sahtu region and I asked them a question. Would you like to spend your time here or in the bush? They always answered with we want to spend some time in the bush. I got to see and I know people who spend time in the bush and they could really benefit themselves and the communities in a lot of good ways that can be used for their time.
I'm not going to slam the previous government of the building over there. That's none of my doing. But I want to support that, in terms of getting people who I see have an elders program in there to really strongly put that elders program in there as one of the priorities in that facility. Use it to the max. It's there. It's waiting to be used. I don't have very much to say about it. I think I want to see how best we can use it. I hope I'm not encouraging our people to use it because it's a nice facility, I've heard. I haven't seen it yet. To deter them from going in there and look at more of the wilderness camps in the regions, at least. They'll have a hard time in the bush, but that's good for them. Let them work it out and use their muscles and use their minds. That's what the old timers were saying. Make them work. Make them think. I think that's something I just wanted to comment on, Mr. Chairman, is that I hope some emphasis will be given to the wilderness camps over the facility here in Yellowknife.