Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I've made the commitment to the Member in this House that I will meet at my earliest opportunity with the new Minister for Public Safety and raise this issue. I have, last week, taken the opportunity to meet with the chief superintendent of the RCMP; expressed my concerns around the ability of our current policing arrangement to adequately provide services in Sachs Harbour because of the remote nature of this community. The incident the Member has highlighted here I think was one in which we responded very, very well. The RCMP were very quick on the ground as in the follow-up, as the Member mentioned, but I have concerns, should bad weather have arisen or some other thing, that we do need a presence there. So I'll raise it at my earliest opportunity with the new Minister. I do have the support of the chief superintendent who is having his staff conduct an inventory on the ground to assess, in fact, how our assets look and what we would need in terms of refurbishment. Because, as I've mentioned, it's the federal government that has to pay the bill for this. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Brendan Bell on Question 416-15(4): Need For Rcmp In Sachs Harbour
In the Legislative Assembly on February 16th, 2006. See this statement in context.
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