Thank you, Madam Chair. Although most of the subjects have been touched on, I am just going to be breeze through them really quickly. I am happy to see six new RCMP positions being created in addition to the 22 that have already been established. I am hoping, on a personal level, that this is addressing the concerns that were brought up in the report of needs. I think it was coined by Terry...Now I can't remember the officer's name, but we had an RCMP report establishing basic needs that they needed to do to provide clear services and solid services to the public. It mentioned where they needed the creation of a whole new bunch of positions. I would like to hear later on about the details. Are we meeting the needs that the RCMP have said to ensure that basic policing services are out there, and we are covering the need in a safe way?

The next thing is legal aid services. I appreciate that the Minister has mentioned here that we have $4 million for legal aid services. I am hoping we will get some detail on what type of backlog and wait times we have on this. I am going to propose some new ideas. If the Minister has an appetite to consider options; for example, creating a territorial service agreement with Nunavut and the Yukon. I am not a lawyer or have that type of experience, but maybe the Minister or his staff can express the details of how difficult it would be to create some type of service

agreement with the other two territories, recognizing that our lay of the land is not much different in the essence of the peoples and the type of community justice that may need to be provided. Quite often backlogs are because we can't get a lawyer due to the conflict problem and the relationship with them. Then we are forced to shelve those family law cases until we can find someone in the private sector to pick it up, or even potentially go to the private sector down south. I am going to propose ideas like that; start thinking outside the box because if we can't get local lawyers to do that, we are going to have to look elsewhere. It's quite often that we could extend this type of territorial service agreement to maybe even work with justices across the Territories. We are thinking far beyond our small little area and saying maybe we could work on a territorial level. I recognize that laws in the Yukon are different and laws in Nunavut are different but, at the end of the day, lawyers can practice anywhere across Canada, assuming they met the bar requirements. Why don't we look at options of making sure we can certify justices to do the same, so we can deliver on a regular basis fairer justice in a timely way? I just hate to think people are waiting for justice and can't get lawyers. I certainly hate to think of people waiting for justice to be served and we can't provide them a judge to see their case.

Other areas I would potentially like to hear more detail on, speaking of justices, the Minister had mentioned 113 days the Supreme Court had sittings outside of Yellowknife. As I understand it, there are three Supreme Court justices and that works out to approximately 38 days each judge. I will be curious as to the details how often they sit in Yellowknife, just so we can get a bigger picture on how much they do and what the territorial justices do. On the Supreme Court point, I have always wondered who pays for that appointment when the federal government decides which judge we are getting, and how do we signal when the workload requires another judge, or how do we decide we do not need another judge. I am curious on the type of workload associated with that.

Madam Chair, I think that gives an extremely high level point of view of some of the areas that I think I will be raising when we get to those specific pages. I will look forward to those detailed answers. I know the Minister and his staff are writing these things down, but I will ask them in such a way that will give them a fair chance to comment in the detailed way I am looking for. Thank you, Madam Chair.