Madam Chair, I appreciate the Minister going into detail on that here. The Minister, myself, and members of Justice were at the policing symposium, I believe in 2012. I appreciate the Minister having members accompany him with opportunities like that. One of the things that was discovered during the presentations was the State of Alaska has very similar situations that we have, in terms of communities that do not have state troopers, whereas we also have a lot of communities that do not have RCMP presence. They use a body called a village public safety officer, or VPSO.
I know, in discussing this with the Minister then and the deputy minister at the symposium, the possibilities of this being somewhat of an opportunity for the Northwest Territories to look at a hybrid version of what is truly a successful program in Alaska. Can the Minister comment on it? Has he made any strides as to investigate this as a potential? If he can offer that to the committee. Thank you.