Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I am just going to go over briefly some of the things that I would like to get some response from the Minister on as we go through the detail. I would like to get some information on the status of the restructuring of the G division of the RCMP. I would like to know what exactly is happening with the police space in Hay River at the South Mackenzie Correctional Centre that was allocated for remand services and how the change in the way that remand inmates were being handled, how that is playing out compared to the plans and the goals that were intended to be achieved with that reprofiling.
I would like to ask a little bit about the RCMP drug dog that we have and how successful that is proving to be. I just want to say that I am not so concerned as to where the drug dog is located, but just the availability for those services to be deployed in the Northwest Territories as required at various locations and whether or not one dog or one handler is sufficient.
Again, on the subject of the RCMP, I would like to inquire about how the auxiliary program is going, whether it is expanding, whether it is diminishing and how that fits in with the overall policing agenda here in the North.
With respect to the Yellowknife courthouse, I want to say that I do concur with the Members here who have previously stated that we need to regionalize the court services as much as possible. I think that, on a cost comparison, we would spend an inordinate amount of money and police resources bringing people back and forth to the courthouse and correction services in Yellowknife. The more that those services, court appearances and incarcerations can be decentralized, I think the better it is for the region. It is better for people who come into contact with the justice system. So that is all I have to say under general comments for now. Thank you, Mr. Chair.