Thank you, Mr. O'Reilly. Minister Sebert.

Mr. Chair, I understand that ITI was not able to keep that money. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Minister Sebert. Any further questions, Mr. O'Reilly?

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I'm just not sure about the presentation here. That might be something I'd have to take up in our review of the Main Estimates when we do this offline somewhere else, but I'm just not sure that this is -- I'm not sure it contains the information about the full staffing of OROGO in 2015-16. So I don't know how else to pursue it. Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. O'Reilly. Would you like to comment, Minister Sebert?

I don't think I have anything further, Mr. Chair.

Okay. Thank you, Minister Sebert. Any further questions, committee, to page 277? Okay. Office of the regulator of oil and gas operations, operations expenditure summary, total activity, $1,869,000. Are we agreed?

Agreed. That brings us to page 280, policing services, operations expenditure summary, total activity, $44,729,000. Are we agreed? Questions? Mr. Nadli.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just wanted to ask the Minister if he could maybe provide an explanation in terms of I think it's been lately about three years since the bridge came into operation, and it's now, you know, the effect is that we have 24-hour traffic up and down the Mackenzie Highway that travels north and south. So I wanted to get an understanding of whether that has had a negative impact in terms of the resources of RCMP officers and detachments, either in Yellowknife, Behchoko, Fort Providence and Hay River, and whether there are designated resources for highway patrols plus at the same time ensuring the safety and well-being of residents in the communities. Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Nadli. Minister Sebert.

Mr. Chair, I'm not aware in any change of activity, and if there is a change of activity, it hasn't been brought forward to us. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Minister Sebert. Mr. Nadli.

Thank you. I understand that with community residents RCMP local detachments are developing community policing plans. I just wanted to understand whether that will continue, especially in regard to smaller communities such as Kakisa that efforts have been made to ensure that their input will be sought and that at least their involvement -- at least lay the foundation of community policing plans. Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Nadli. Minister Sebert.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We are committed to having community policing plans with all communities. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Minister. Mr. Nadli. Nothing further from Mr. Nadli. Mr. Beaulieu.

No, Mr. Chairman.

Nothing from Mr. Beaulieu. Mr. Blake.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. A few questions here, first starting with territorial policing services. This is, as I mentioned a number of times in the house, policing services in Tsiigehtchic, you know, it has improved over the year, the last few months here, but the community really would like to see some sort of station set up for policing in the community. I know a number of years ago we had a bylaw officer at the time take the Aboriginal policing, but since then, that is almost 20 years ago, Mr. Chair. You know, the community would really like to see a station set up in Tsiigehtchic. Would that be possible in the future? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Blake. Minister Sebert.

Mr. Chair, the provision of adequate policing services to all of our communities remains a priority for the Department of Justice and the GNWT, as well as the RCMP. So Justice continues to work with the RCMP to address the concerns of the smaller communities. The RCMP aims to improve services to Tsiigehtchic by increasing the number and length of patrols to the community. In 2015, Fort McPherson RCMP conducted 80 patrols to the community. Currently the NWT Housing Corp. is in the process of installing a two-bed portable unit, and that will allow the RCMP to use it for overnight accommodations for the members on patrol. So although there is no full-time RCMP detachment in that community, we do understand the concerns that the Member has expressed many times and do believe that this is the solution. There are increased numbers of patrols and we do believe that the community is adequately covered. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Minister. Mr. Blake.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. No, I've seen the improvements over the last few months, and I look forward to the duplex coming to the community as well. I know the department did plan to have officers there on the weekends, which is great. Which brings me to my next question, with the First Nations Policing. You know, how many people throughout the territory actually are involved under this topic here? Thank you.