Mr. Chair, at the federal, provincial and territorial justice meetings, I hope the Minister gives a strong statement for students in the Northwest Territories in terms of supporting our students in law, in justice, and the importance of our students getting into a system that would be beneficial to people in the Northwest Territories, especially the aboriginal governments that certainly look for these qualified, educated people to move their vision forward in terms of their own government. I look forward to the Minister working with his counterparts to see if there’s a way that the students can be supported through this avenue here.

Mr. Chair, the national justice issues here are $9,000 grants to organizations working to improve the Canadian justice system. Just a comment here in terms of these types of grants. I’m not too sure about this grant here. Either way I look at it, just on the value of the book right here is that these types of dollars should be going to the community justice programs in the North because they are improving the justice system. I’m not really comfortable to speak too much about it because I don’t have the information here in terms of this grant and what is

the criteria for organizations working towards improving the Canadian justice system. It’s pretty broad so I will have to wait and ask the Minister to provide me some information at another time. If anything, these grants should maybe be added to the law bursary for these young aboriginal students to improve the justice system. Thank you, Mr. Chair.