Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I think this is a good thing to look into, to investigate. I think that everybody probably sitting on this side of the House has a different idea of what an adequate emergency response network would look like in the Northwest Territories. I'm sure that some people have an idea about what it should look like that would probably be out of reach, from a financial point of view.

In a community like Hay River where we have many volunteers who are willing to devote their time to being first responders, to taking all the training, to going out on calls, it's a system that needs to be supported and can work well, but if Members have an idea of people who are on a payroll full time in communities waiting for accidents to respond to, I don't think that in this day and age and in our territory with its vast expanses between communities, and its vast miles and miles of highway, I'm rather doubtful that our government could afford something like that. But if it means getting communities together, identifying volunteers, our government supporting them with training and skills, including the ones that already currently exist like I mentioned, the Hay River fire department, offering more service to, I guess, harness the volunteers and the people who are willing to go out and do that, I would totally support that. But I'm not getting a sense, from what Members are saying, exactly what their expectations are here. But if it means moving forward to look into this, I will support that, but I think we also have to be realistic.