Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will be quick. A few years ago I started advocating this problem that constituents of mine had unruly behaviour next to them in the parks and whatnot. There were fires and people cutting down trees, creating trash. While they were out in a lawful way enjoying the use of their property, people were shooting guns at them. It was noted the difficulty of having the RCMP bolt out of the city of Yellowknife to an area about 45 minutes outside of the city and getting there in a timely way. The difficulty, as I saw it, was they weren't being protected by some type of enforcement process. It seemed that the government was turning a blind eye to it because they had no mechanism in there to do anything with it.

I am glad to see that the Minister and the department truly did hear the concerns from the point of view of my constituents, which was that there was a serious problem out there going on in our parks and that something needed to be done about that type of behaviour. So the Minister, in responding to the problem, struck a discussion group and I remember being at the very first meeting where he had the RCMP, MACA, Transportation, as well as his officials and several others from other areas. I am glad to see that that discussion group had some type of observation that is turning into results.

As I see this, it is an intent to ensure public safety and put a priority on public assistance first, because the issue here is that if they are not in a safe area, that's not very fair. We have lawful constituents out there trying to enjoy the activity of what lawful citizens do while people were putting their safety in jeopardy.

If someone would say government is being swift on this and maybe not going to the fullest reach of consultation, I guess government being swift is probably normally an oxymoron. I would definitely say this is something that the public would say why couldn't you constitute this pretty quickly. We are giving teeth, assurances and tools to our parks officers to do the jobs that they need to do, so they are out there to deal with the problems to ensure law-abiding citizens are safe.

In closing, Mr. Chairman, although this probably won't solve every problem out there, I can tell you right now that my constituents who I have talked to about this problem will be elated to see that government is certainly responding to their needs from a public safety point of view. They will certainly be very happy to see that we are finally listening to the average citizen and ensuring that we are responding to their needs and I am just glad to say that I am proud of that. So thank you, Mr. Chair.