For the record, I just wish to go over some of the Social Programs committee

recommendations. Committee expects to learn more about the department’s plan to ensure that communities without detachments continue to have services or just the Minister of Justice to increase access to funding the positions to the First Nations Policing Policy.

For the community justice programs, committee acknowledged the importance of these programs and the need for community justice committees to have increased support and training from the Department of Justice.

The committee supports the proposed changes to the Arctic Tern facility and expects the Minister will implement recommendations resulting from the facilities review.

The support for changes in the role of the court workers. Committee supports the work being done to enhance the role of the court workers in assisting clients with civil and family law matters as well.

As far as the family violence programs go, the committee supports the implementation of phase two of the action plan and funding of the programs for men who abuse, and encourages the Minister of Justice to initiate programs to support and resolve issues for families in conflict.

In the area of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, the committee supports the work of the Department of Justice; the support that the Department of Justice is initiating with regard to clients and inmates with FASD.

In the legal aid services, the committee encourages the Minister to keep working to resolve the backlog in the system.

As far as the Minister’s opening comments, just, I guess, once we get down to the details of the department going page by page, I would be interested also, as Mrs. Groenewegen indicated, in what was called the Special Constable Program, but the name has changed to Community Policing Program, I believe.

I’m also interested in how the department is dealing with the backlog in legislation that has been proposed from the various departments and whether or not the department has now dealt with at one time, which was a process that was fairly slow and that the people who were putting legislative proposals together or the departments that were putting legislative proposals together and Justice didn’t have the lawyers there to be able to deal with developing that legislation as quickly as I think the departments would like. I’d just be asking in that area to see if that has changed. That’s it for now.