Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That is good to hear because that is certainly an unfortunate set of circumstances which lead to the death of this child in care in British Columbia.

Mr. Chairman, I'd like to just touch, for a moment, on the volunteer fire and ambulance service in Hay River. I know I raised this with the Minister last week in the House here.

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But I just wanted to say again, I didn't get a chance to say it then, that I think that the fire and ambulance volunteer service in Hay River is of extraordinary value to not only Hay River, but to the surrounding area. If the Government of the Northwest Territories had to pay for those services at realistic cost, we would be looking at a very considerable amount of money. That being said, the Minister is aware that the Hay River volunteer fire department and ambulance service does receive a

$25,000 contribution through the Hay River Community Health Board for their operations. The rest of the costs are absorbed by the Town of Hay River. So this service has been provided for quite a number of years. We need some assistance to assess the service, what's available now, what's going to be anticipated to be needed for the future, and I had asked the Minister about some funding in order to put together a document identifying the relevant details with respect to what is needed going forward. I got a sort of a favourable response, but I didn't really get an answer. I wanted to put it in the context of what that service is worth and what we'd have to pay for it if that was not being done by volunteers. So I think the request of the Hay River fire department for $10,000 in order to do this good work that needs to be done anyway is a very small amount of money and I wanted to put it in the context of what they do. So I don't know if the Minister wants to respond to that again, or if he's had a chance even since last week to give this any more thought. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.