Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have a few questions today for the Minister of Justice. I wanted to ask him about smoking by employees at the North Slave Correctional Centre. Obviously being a corrections guard is a very stressful
occupation, Mr. Speaker. A year ago they did away with smoking at that facility and now, if you are a corrections guard, you can’t smoke on the property at all, even though shifts are eight hours in duration and sometimes folks work double shifts. But other staff are allowed to smoke. If you look downtown, other government employees are allowed to just simply go outside and smoke. I am wondering, I guess, why it is that we are treating corrections guards differently than we treat other government employees. I would like to ask the Justice Minister why that is the case. Why are corrections guards not allowed to smoke outside in a designated area by that correctional facility?