Thank you, Mr. Chair. One of the key areas of engagement that we have already begun as the Department of Justice within the 19^th Assembly is to truly advocate to the federal government to expand the First Nations Policing Program. The First Nations Policing Program provides a different type of funding arrangement between the RCMP and the Government of the Northwest Territories and supports the increase of additional positions within Indigenous communities. Under that program, as it is, there are five additional police officers coming in, in 2021, but it's our view that that program really needs to be expanded so that it can better serve a bigger variety of communities. Right now, those positions are regional, but they are regional to within communities that are already signed into that framework.

Our hope is that, with some advocacy with community partners or with Indigenous governments, the federal government will, in fact, expand that program so that it can be one that benefits more of the communities and we can, as such, better serve exactly the communities that the Member is speaking of. Thank you, Mr. Chair.