Jackson Lafferty

Mahsi, Mr. Chairman. Certainly reintegrating clients or inmates back to the community is an important step to our process. I will look further into what the Member is alluding to. That will be our commitment from Justice. We’ll certainly look into that.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. [English translation not provided.]

Mr. Speaker, this government understands the importance of building partnerships with aboriginal governments, municipalities and industry. In the Beaufort-Delta in particular, such partnerships have achieved great things. I recently had the opportunity to participate in the opening of the Aurora College student residence in Inuvik last month. The residence could not have been built without strong support from the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation, the Gwich’in Tribal Council, the Town of Inuvik, Aurora College staff and students, and the...

I’ve just been informed that we do have base funding as well. But certainly, Mr. Chair, we will explore that area. It’s all based on the needs of the communities, so we’ll do what we can as a department to work with the Members and figure out what are the best options, what we’ve been providing for the past few years and how we can improve in that area. Certainly we’ll be open to discussion in that area. Mahsi.

Yes, that is correct. There will be a position there.

Certainly for our Justice Department we can give a breakdown of how these positions are located and where they’re located, the regions versus the headquarters. We will be more than happy to give a breakdown in writing to the Members.

Mr. Chair, to answer the question for the Member, no, that is not part of the plan. Mahsi.

Mahsi, Mr. Chair. I believe that we can certainly provide that information that we have at our disposal.

There won’t be full coverage, but it’s not an everyday occurrence at Corrections. But certainly, that is one area that we did highlight as the Justice Department before we even went to cutting the vacant position. There wasn’t much weekend activity. Mahsi.

Mahsi, Mr. Chair. We can certainly make that available to the Members. Yes, certainly we can do that.

Currently we have none at that corrections facility. Mahsi.