Jane Groenewegen

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Mr. Vician.

Okay. It was a comment. Anything further on page 12-9, information item, revenue summary? Mr. Dolynny.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya, for your comments. The Minister has 37 seconds to respond. Thank you.

I do appreciate the fact that RCMP are willing to go into the communities on visits and stay overnight in those communities, but I am talking about resident police officers in the community that are there, that know the community, that may even be from the community, that are Northerners.

Could the Minister tell me if there has ever been a discussion with the RCMP on such an idea, and what kind of efficiencies we could realize by trying to create such a group of police officers, perhaps with the cooperation of the RCMP? There is no sense in reinventing everything. Maybe they would be willing to...

Agreed. Thank you. Page 12-15, information item, corporate management, active positions. Any questions?

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Mr. Vician.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Mr. Vician.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I realized after I sat down, all happy after my exchange of questions with the Minister of Justice, that I still really didn’t know the answer to my question, so let me ask it more directly. Is there any impediment to the Northwest Territories creating another level of police force, police officer in the Northwest Territories, to work in cooperation but outside of the rules imposed by the national RCMP but work in cooperation with the RCMP? Is there any impediment to us doing that as a territory?

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Minister Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. On the surface this sounds like a good idea, but it almost sounds too simple to be possible, because I’ve sat through enough briefings on fiscal forecasts and negotiations with Canada on our formula and how that transfer is calculated, perversity factors, own efforts factors, so many different things that it’s hard to believe. We have a unique relationship with Canada in terms of how we obtain the majority of our revenues and this is one piece of it. These tax revenues that this motion speaks to, this is just one part of it and I think it is a complex equation. I don’t...