Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. I’ll treat it as a comment. Moving on, we have Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Minister McLeod. Does the Minister have any witnesses he wishes to bring into the House?

Welcome back, committee. Does Minister McLeod have witnesses he’d like to bring into the Chamber?

We’re on page 5-49, NWT Housing Corporation, information item, finance and infrastructure services.

I guess the question I have, as well is accessibility for these lawyers. Is it the fact that we as a government, are we paying adequately to attract lawyers to come here to work or are we at a disadvantage? Are other jurisdictions doing more to attract this professional person to come this far north?

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister McLeod.

Does committee agree?

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Does committee agree?

Thank you, Mr. Moses. Mr. McLeod.

Again, not that I want to be tongue-in-cheek here, but the question is obviously very, very important to a lot of the communities that do not have regular patrol days or very few patrol days. What we’re hearing from communities is the fact that they’re looking for more police presence, more patrol days, and I’m hoping that this budget for this fiscal year will be addressing that. It sounds like you’ve got a new contract in place, which is congratulations to the department for doing that, but I think from this side of the House we need to see that translating into more presence, more effective...