Jane Groenewegen

Thank you. Page 12-9, information item, revenue summary. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Mr. Vician.

So, I gather from that answer that these constables work in conjunction with existing RCMP detachments. So they do not go to the issue of what I’m talking about here today, and that is communities, the number of communities in the Northwest Territories who currently do not have any police presence. So I’ll ask the Minister, has the department, has our government ever considered some form of auxiliary police department in the Northwest Territories that could be stand-alone outside of the RCMP in these small communities? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Vician.

Thank you, Ms. Magrum. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Minister Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Mr. Vician.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In follow-up to my Member’s statement today about community policing and police presence in all of our communities, I would like to direct my questions to the Minister of Justice. Communities in southern Canada have their own police force. Tell me again, if I didn’t already know, why the Northwest Territories, if not RCMP, cannot have some kind of policing presence in our communities currently that do not have a police presence.

When we have no police presence, it falls to other people to fill in that gap. It falls to band managers and people who are respected in the...

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Ms. Magrum.

Agreed. Thank you. Page 12-21, activity summary, energy, operations expenditure summary, $2.988 million. Agreed? Mr. Bromley.