Thank you. The department in no way shape or form is waiting for these costs to start doing some work. We recognize that some work needs to be done. The government is focused on trying to find ways to keep people out of the justice system completely. We want to focus on alternatives and diversions. One of the things that we’re doing is we’re talking to other jurisdictions about the types of courts they have put in place, such as mental health courts, such as alcohol treatment courts or addictions courts. Those are things that we need to explore as a way to divert people out of the justice system completely. We’re also looking at working with the Minister of Health and Social Services, who is focused on doing some prevention here in the Northwest Territories. We all know that alcohol is one of the driving factors of crime in the Northwest Territories and we need to start addressing that. So we are working that.

With respect to courts here in the Northwest Territories, we have pulled together a working group of departments – Justice, Education, Culture and Employment, Health and Social Services and MACA – to start going through options that are available to us, such as the diversion courts and collaborative practice working together with the departments. So there are things that we’re doing. We recognize the areas that we need to work on and we’re starting to make some progress in that direction. We will obviously keep committee informed as we continue. Thank you.