I accept the argument or the evidence or the information provided. I mean, it’s easy to correlate that. What was there will likely be there, but now in the new…(inaudible)… But I still worry that there may be an increased demand as more people realize that it’s a territorial process instead of a Supreme Court process.
I guess my caution to the department is even though I do fully support the arguments behind doing this increase, I do fully support this increase and I fully support this bill coming forward, I do caution the department that it may result in an increase in workload and I hope the department is ready for that increase. I hope they have the resources within the department to handle the increased load.
I have a lot of respect for the people in the court system. I have a lot of respect for our GNWT staff who are the clerks and the sheriffs and the administrators. I think they have a hard job and an important job, and I want to make sure that they’re resourced and have the ability to do their job, and I worry about any increased work demand without an offset resource to balance that. I accept that you don’t think that there’s going to be. I accept that you believe it’s probably going to be the same numbers, but in the back of my brain I’m a little worried that if it’s an easier process, it may result in an increase. Just simply a caution and I’ll leave it with that. I do support this bill. Thanks for bringing it forward.