Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This issue was looked at two years ago. We looked at the possibility of what it would take to bring in this 911 service, and our analysis showed that it would be very expensive to bring this to the city of Yellowknife. So we did a couple of things. First of all, we have changed all the phone numbers in the communities for emergency services so they are consistent. The RCMP in every community is 1111 and the fire departments are all 2222. What we are also doing is having some discussion, some communication, with companies to look at the possibility of making our communications within our emergency people, our firefighters, our ambulances, consistent.
It's a concern that's been raised by the Government of Canada as a result of what's happened in the United States over the hurricanes. We have had some discussion with Public Works on this issue. We are looking at what other jurisdictions are doing, namely Yukon. The Yukon has embarked on incorporating a new communications system that will allow all agencies to be able to talk to each other in the case of an evacuation or an emergency, they are required to do so.
So we are doing that much, but we are not going to be moving forward on the 911 issue as it's too costly.