It does give us more of a planning cooperation relationship with the RCMP. One of the things that we’ve been doing is the RCMP has been going in to actually set up individualized policing plans for every community, and we’ve been working with the individual communities. For instance, when we went to Tsiigehtchic and Colville, we actually sat down with the leadership, the commanding officer and I, and then the commanding officer continued after I left. We had conversations about exactly how we can provide, or how they can provide coverage that meets their needs. Even after having some of those discussions, I heard the chief in Tsiigehtchic say we don’t necessarily want a full-time RCMP officer but we want to make sure that we have coverage that we’re comfortable with, and they started working out the details and this is what we need to do. We need to go into each of the communities and work out individual solutions, community-driven solutions.

We need to work with the communities, and the RCMP and the commanding officer are committed to doing so, and we will continue to work with them to create the opportunities to start developing these relationships and find community-based solutions with the RCMP and the Government of the Northwest Territories.