Thank you. I do see an opportunity here as well. As I mentioned earlier, we have GSOs out there. We should be working with our GSOs. Also court workers, and I know the Member has brought up the LHOs. So we will communicate and try to collaborate with the Housing Corporation to see how we can continue to work together on trying to get that information out. So I thank the Member for the question. Thank you.

I think that pretty much covers the area I have of concern under general comments. Thank you.

Thank you, Member Hawkins. We’ll turn our attention to Mr. Blake, go ahead.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just have two concerns to bring up. As I mentioned earlier in some questions to the Minister, policing is still an ongoing issue in Tsiigehtchic. In the past we did have RCMP in the community, and ever since, I believe it was the late ‘60s, early ‘70s, that was taken out of the community. Since then the community has wanted to have the presence of the RCMP back in the community. We feel that if we could have RCMP in a community half our size, there’s no reason why we can’t have RCMP in our community.

Also, I’ll get into it once I get into Aboriginal policing, but that’s my main concern right now. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Blake. Minister Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There are a couple of things that we need to continue to work on, and that is trying to find accommodations. As I mentioned to the Member, the RCMP are working with the community. The Member advised me during debate in the House earlier today that the RCMP was requesting the community supply that accommodation in kind. That was the first that I had heard about that. So we are going to go back to the RCMP and discuss that with them.

You know, the cost of accommodations in a community like Tsiigehtchic shouldn’t be an impediment to having Members overnight in the community, so we’ll look at that.

Also, the discussion about detachments and new detachments in communities that currently don’t have detachments, the formula has changed. The Government of the Northwest Territories is now responsible for 70 percent of the capital costs of those new detachments. We have some money earmarked for a refurb of the detachment in Inuvik and also the one in Behchoko, but no new detachments. A new detachment, just to ballpark it, is somewhere between $7 million and $10 million, $7 million and $11 million, in that range. So we

have to ensure that we have the capital dollars before we can make commitments to building detachments.

Thank you. Just under the wilderness camps that were mentioned earlier with corrections, I was hoping to see more funds in there, but I’ll get into that later as we go through the department. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Blake. I didn’t hear a question and we’ll get to that detail. General comments, committee. Is committee prepared to go into detail?

Thank you, committee. Direct your attention to page 289 in your main estimates. We’re going to defer this page until consideration of the activity detail. That said, I’d like to turn your attention to page 290, revenue summary, information item. Any questions?

Seeing none, thank you. Page 291, active position summary, information item. Any questions?

Thank you. Page 293, community justice and policing, operations expenditure summary, $5.096 million. Does committee agree?

Thank you. Page 294, community justice and policing, grants, contributions and transfers, total contributions, $2.169 million. Does committee agree?

Thank you. Page 295, community justice and policing, active positions, information item. Any questions?

Page 297, corrections, operations expenditure summary,

$39.477 million. Does committee agree?

Thank you, committee. Page 298, corrections, grants, contributions and transfers, total contributions, $179,000. Mr. Blake.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just wanted to ask, under the wilderness camps, how many camps does that funding represent? Is that one in each region or what is the breakdown per camp that is out there? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Blake. Mr. Ramsay.