Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thanks for your indulgence. I’ll start with the ICM and the pilot in Inuvik. We’re happy to hear the support from the Member and other Members on that rollout. We’re excited about getting that pilot up and running in Inuvik. We’re interested, again, in trying to do things a bit differently and trying to work not from silos and include others. So we’re anxious to see that happen.

On the men who use violence, we have had some referrals to the Tree of Peace. The program is going to start back up in March. So we’re hopeful that this will be successful. It’s a program that’s needed. So, that will be starting up shortly.

On the Community Safety Strategy and Safety Plan, what underpins all of this is the fact that the communities around the Northwest Territories have policing plans in place. On top of that is a Community Safety Plan. We’re currently working with a number of communities across the Northwest Territories on developing those community safety plans. I’ve got a list of communities. I can go through some of them here. Tulita, Inuvik, K’atlodeeche, Colville Lake, I mentioned earlier, Tsiigehtchic and Gameti and there will be others that we continue to work on and continue to promote community safety. So that’s a work in progress.

On the death review committees, I want to thank the Member for his interest in the work of the coroner, and I know there are other Members who are interested. Mr. Moses did attend the coroner’s event here in Yellowknife and I appreciate that. On the death review committees, we really believe there would be some significant cost to government. We’d also have to look at some new legislative changes with death review committees, and with the government only being around for another eight months, that is something that will have to be put off until the 18th Assembly on looking at death

review committees. But I want to thank, again, the Member for his interest in that.

Health, I know the Member was talking about mental health. Health does have a Mental Health Strategy. It’s important for the Department of Justice to try to link into that as much as we can and we’re certainly interested in that work as it rolls out and how it impacts, potentially, the crime rates here in the Northwest Territories and criminal activity.

On the issue of work release and somebody not coming back on one of those TAs, you don’t get a TA – that’s a temporary absence – unless you are low risk. You wouldn’t see somebody that was high risk getting work release and being able to be on a TA. In this case we did notify the victim, as that person disobeyed his TA. We do have also a Victim Notification Program where the victim can request to be notified and that has been very successful for us as well. We will reach out to the victims should they wish, and we have done that in the past and we’ll continue to do that.

With that, I thank the Member for his comments. I know he’s very much interested in the work we’re doing and we’re happy to have his support. Thank you.

Thank you, Minister Ramsay. Committee, noting the clock, I will now rise and report progress. I would like to thank our witnesses here today. Ms.

Schofield and Ms. Haener, thank you for joining us. We’ll see you tomorrow. Sergeant-at-Arms, if you could please escort the witnesses out of the Chamber. Thank you.

Can I have the report of Committee of the Whole, Mr. Dolynny?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Your committee has been considering Tabled Document 188-17(5), NWT Main Estimates 2015-2016, and would like to report progress. Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with.

Thank you. Do we have a seconder to the motion? Mr. Beaulieu.

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Item 23, third reading of bills. Mr. Whitford, orders of the day.

Thank you, Mr. Whitford. Accordingly, this House stands adjourned until Thursday, February 12th , at 1:30 p.m.

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The House adjourned at 6:03 p.m.