Thank you, Mr. Chair. I suspect that the Member is referring to the correction service Wilderness Camp Program. We have a number of those in operation. They are not specifically tied to those two communities that the Member has mentioned, but the program's budget is a little over $1 million a year. It involves trying to get inmates into on-the-land camps. We have recently concluded a request for a proposal, where we were asking for proposals from potential operators from across the Northwest Territories. We have had a number of proposals come in for operations. We will be taking a look at those.
We have had a couple in operation, particularly for adults in the past little while. The big problem we have had is convincing enough inmates to actually take the program. What we were sort of doing is almost a marketing program in the jails. We have had a little flyer developed. I would be happy to share copies with all of the Members. The staff hand them out to inmates. They are encouraged to consider moving to a wilderness camp. We have also increased the incentive pay for inmates who will go out to wilderness camps, because, I agree with the Member; this is actually a very good way to have people get back into understanding themselves, their cultures and becoming
more productive citizens. We increased the pay. The staff is quite aggressively marketing the programs now to inmates. As I said, we have two in operation in the Northwest Territories right now. We are looking at others. But we need to get more inmates prepared to go into these facilities in order to justify their operation.