Thank you, Madam Chair. We are very close on finalizing an engagement approach for residents on the Ingraham Trail and line up our communication materials on this. We also know that this is not just about Ingraham Trail, that emergency services outside municipal boundaries is something of interest in many communities in the Northwest Territories. Our communication, our engagement approach, I anticipate that it will include opportunities for all residents to be in on this issue.
Our intention is, in the month of March as we sort of put the finalizing T's on our engagement documents, is to go out and use a variety of tactics to talk to residents in the month of March. We are recognizing that large, in-person gatherings or focus groups or those kind of things may be certainly challenging in the current environment, so we're looking for IT solutions and those kind of things as well as opportunities for residents to contact us directly on this issue.
Following that, we expect to be putting together some type of summary document. I would expect that to happen in the late spring after we've completed our engagement. Essentially, what we want to do is go out there and talk to the residents about the type of options that may be available for emergency services. I would preface this by saying that emergency services on the Ingraham Trail appear to be a very costly option, so there are no easy solutions with this topic. We're not quite sure what we're going to hear from the residents on this. Suffice to say, we will take their feedback and come forward with a recommend approach of how we ought to be approaching this kind of service in that area.
Again, we're mindful that any approaches that we identify through this exercise, we would strive to at least try to see that these are replicatable in other areas of the NWT, so we're mindful of that, as well. Thank you, Madam Chair.