Mahsi, Mr. Chair. Most of the discussion that the Member addressed I agree with. The 18 recommendations that are being brought forward, the implementation should be sooner than later. I agree with him. Those are the areas that we are pursuing and we will follow through with those recommendations.

The clinical psychologist, we’ve dealt with that in the House. As I stated in the House, we will have a trained individual within a month or so from now and we’re looking forward to that individual coming on board as a fully fledged clinical psychologist. That’s in the works.

The life sentence versus the heavier sentence. This is a national issue, Mr. Chair, but what we can do at our end and what we had done is also focusing a lot on the preventive measurement. Currently we’re finalizing the review of the Community Justice Program because one of the focuses we want to elaborate or enhance more is preventive measurement. These are the areas that we continue to stress, we continue to heavily invest in, because we firmly believe that if we prevent things from happening, then lack of dealing with sentencing in the long run.

Also just enhancing our rehabilitation programs. Over and over that has been brought up and definitely those are the areas that we need to increase our focus on. We will continue, as we’ve done in the past, to push the federal government to be tough on crime. Mr. Chair, for the repeat violent offenders, this is an area that it’s a serious issue at the national stage even with our Northwest Territories Department of Justice. We will do what we can with our Crown, as well, here in the

Northwest Territories, even at the federal level too. We’re not going to stop here. We’ll continue pressuring our colleagues at the federal level.

Another area that was touched on was that violent crime should go down. I totally agree with that statement and even the statement that was made by Judge Vertes on Northbeat that it is our responsibility. The Northwest Territories politicians and the general public need to do their part. It’s not just our department or the GNWT, but as whole. Government of the Northwest Territories, Aboriginal governments, the general public at large, we have to do this together.

The programs on the family breakup, we did a presentation this morning to the standing committee. We’ve highlighted various programs. That’s just the beginning of what we offer but we’ll continue to develop more programs along the way. Again, this is part of supporting those individuals that may be in a breakup situation. There is a mediation program. There are different programs that we offer, but we’ll continue to explore on how we can enhance those programs, Mr. Chair. Mahsi.