Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Member is certainly right that we spend a lot more on offenders than we do on victims, but we do have some programs that provide services to victims. We have, in the past year, increased the funding for those services by 22 percent -- actually, that was not in the last year, that was two years ago, to $305,000 in 2004-05...I guess that is this current year. We have added money to victims services. It is an area where we support victims to provide victims' impact statements; we provide other services to help them with counselling and so on when it comes to appearing in court.

We would like to do more but it is a challenge, given the fiscal situation. In terms of other things that we can do, Ministers who are responsible for the social envelope are always looking for areas that we can work on, on the social side of things; that is another area that the government can look at for providing assistance to the victims.

Our whole area of family violence is one where we do focus on victims of one kind of violence in the Northwest Territories. As the Member knows, on April 1st, the Protection Against Family Violence Act will come into effect and it will provide one more tool in that kit to help people in the North who are victims.

In terms of the remand side of it, the Member talked about the cost of transportation. The Audit Bureau talked to the

RCMP and they said that they didn't think that the cost was going to go up by very much, if at all. We took their word for it; the Audit Bureau seems to have taken their word for it. We think that they are qualified to make that decision.

In terms of the courthouse, again it comes down to, it's not as if we are talking about spending money, or not spending the money -- the courts here are undersized and they are going to have to be replaced. The courthouse that we have in the budget right now will be scheduled for completion in 2010. One way or the other, we are going to have to have new space by then. If we start leasing it, it is going to cost us, over time, way more than $40 million. It is either we lease it or we build it, and I think that it makes far more sense for us to build a new courthouse.

I understand the concern. I have talked to the leaders from the region that this Member represents, and I know that they have expressed the same concerns to me; they have expressed particular concerns about investing more in correctional facilities than we do in educational facilities. I want to assure the Member that that isn't the case. We are investing way more in educational facilities, way more in education than we are in corrections. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.