Masi, Mr. Chair. Usually, the RCMP "G" Division would inquire or talk about recruitment process, and they want to recruit people from the communities. Obviously, that requires training, and we, as a Department of Justice, need to be proactive. Because we talk about money, we can identify funds towards that to train our own people to become full-fledged RCMP officers. We can't always say it's "G" Division, that they approve, that they have to come up with the training requirements, training funding. We have to be proactive, as the justice department, to move forward, to say we want to set the mandate target within five years to produce 20 full-fledged officers. That should be one of the targets. We do not have that. We talk about training here and there. We produced one that I know of out of Hay River. He is still an officer right now, which I am very proud of. Mr. Chair, those are some of the commitments I would like to hear from the Minister going forward, obviously working with the chief commanding officer, if this is something that she is willing to meet with "G" Division, if it's to discuss further training opportunities within Northwest Territories? Masi.
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