When the review or amalgamation of this human resource division goes through and the recommendations that come out of this, will the Minister report back to this House on what changes he plans to make with the affirmative action policy, that is currently not working today? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Villeneuve. Mr. Roland.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, first of all I would have to disagree with the Member saying that rampantly things aren't working. We have examples; I think we can show some improvements in different departments in communities on that. It is an area that we realize there are concerns with and we're going to work to improve on how we handle it as a GNWT. Yes, I will come back to the Members and show them the results of the work that's being done. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. Final short supplementary, Mr. Villeneuve.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I do realize there have been some improvements, but we have to take that all into context that because a priority one, an indigenous aboriginal, moves up from data entry clerk to a secretary, oh, great. That's affirmative action right there. To me that just doesn't cut it. I want to see affirmative action candidates moving up to higher level job positions instead of making some lateral changes as is usually the case and I don't want...

What is your question, Mr. Villeneuve? Do you have a question?

The representation we need in this government is up on the management-level positions. Will the Minister commit to reviewing the positions and the lateral changes that are going to be taking place with this human resource amalgamation on the higher levels...

Thank you, Mr. Villeneuve. Mr. Roland.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I guess one of the best things we can say that will affect the affirmative action of the Government of the Northwest Territories is having a good education. Have a good education and you'll be able to have much more success and those are things we're working on. Yes, as we go through this, the government has in the past done a number of reviews. We've looked at that. We don't want to keep on reviewing the situation. There was some work done in the past, affirmative action reports that were looked at both by Regular Members and Ministers. We're going to dust those off, take what work has been done and work to improve in that area. It won't be just at the bottom level, it's going to be throughout. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. Item 7, oral questions. The honourable Member for Nunakput, Mr. Pokiak.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are to the Minister of Justice. I'd like to follow up with what my colleague Mr. Yakeleya was alluding to earlier, Mr. Speaker. In my Member's statement I spoke about the concern that the RCMP had appointed the Yellowknife school liaison officer in Yellowknife here, yet the community of Sachs Harbour does not have a permanent RCMP presence. Can the Minister of Justice inform this Assembly what the plans are for re-establishing a permanent police detachment in Sachs Harbour? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Pokiak. The honourable Minister of Justice, Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have been talking with the RCMP about an approach that might be able to provide service to Sachs Harbour, but at this point I can't say that we've managed to finalize that. As

I've said earlier today, I have a meeting scheduled with the chief superintendent for two weeks from today. I will be following up with the chief superintendent at that meeting and we'll get back to the Member right after.

Thank you, Mr. Dent. Supplementary, Mr. Pokiak.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It's one thing to talk to the chief superintendent about services, but if the outcome is that, again, I related earlier, Mr. Speaker, that labour standards are pretty clear that there's a requirement for a two-man detachment in communities. If that's not the case, Mr. Speaker, does Justice have a backup in place in terms of what they can do to accommodate small, isolated communities? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Pokiak. Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. A number of the positions that have been provided in the budgets last year and proposed this year are going to help improve the policing in small communities. We've managed to provide relief units so we have more police available in regional centres like Inuvik to travel to communities like Sachs Harbour. In fact, the number of times that the RCMP have travelled to Sachs Harbour in the last nine months has dramatically increased over what was happening prior to the last year budget increase. So we are working with the RCMP to find ways to get the members into these communities for more trips and for longer times each time they go. But I will continue to work with the RCMP to see if we can't find a way to deal with the Sachs Harbour issue because we think that working with Parks Canada we might be able to find an opportunity there that doesn't significantly add to costs and will allow us to provide a force there permanently.

Thank you, Mr. Dent. Supplementary, Mr. Pokiak.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you for the response, Mr. Dent. If it appears that they're increasing their services to Sachs Harbour with regard to flying over the isolated community, I should indicate that there is a problem over there. Will the Minister really try to find a solution to the problem to get a full RCMP detachment there? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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Thank you, Mr. Pokiak. Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I don't think there's been an increase in crime in the statistics in Sachs Harbour, so I'm hoping that it isn't reflective of there being an increase in crime. But the fact that we have provided the RCMP with additional resources, they're able to get there. However, I have been to the community, I've talked to the community, I understand their desire, I know the Member's desire. It is certainly something that I am working with the RCMP and will do my best to follow through on. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Dent. Item 7, oral questions. The honourable Member for Range Lake, Ms. Lee.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Health and Social Services and it's with regard to support service programs to deal with people addicted to cocaine and crack cocaine drugs. Mr. Speaker, earlier this week there were lots of discussions about that and Members have asked him about the possibility of a treatment centre and such, and we're also aware of this briefing that the Minister attended, as did I and many other Members here. One of the things that the group was looking for was not necessarily a drug treatment program for crack cocaine, but some sort of halfway house, for lack of a better word, for those who are on the Crack Busters program, who are actively engaging dealing with the addiction but need a place, a healthy environment to go to if their home environment is not conducive to them getting over that addiction. Would the Minister consider having that sort of program in Yellowknife? Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Lee. The honourable Minister of Health and Social Services, Mr. Miltenberger.