Daryl Dolynny

Go ahead, Mr. Bromley.

Mr. Hawkins, if I can get you to repeat that question, please.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Continuing on with questions on 9-13, I have Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just wanted to clarify. I just wanted to take a moment to look at the line item on grants and contributions that lists $179,000. This number is in reference to, I guess, on-the-land programs, in other words we call them wilderness camps and in this case there’s an elders’ program as well. We know, as a committee, that wilderness camps have been on the radar for the department for some time. We know that we haven’t had many in existence probably for about two years. The last two that we had of value was the Kozo Lake adult camp and the Sahtu elders’ camp. We know those...

Thank you, Minister Ramsay. Does committee agree?

Thank you, Ms. Haener. Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Minister Ramsay. Ms. Haener.

Thank you, Ms. Schofield. Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. We will go to Ms. Haener for that.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Again, I appreciate Member Moses for bringing this forward. Committee had a long and heartening look at this particular motion for a number of different reasons. First and foremost, I think we have to thank the Department of Justice for listening to the Members last year, recognizing that the average wait time to seek legal aid was rather high in a lot of our communities. Some of those wait times were somewhere in the 90 to 120 days in some cases, which in Members’ views was a bit of a long period of time, especially to get access to legal advice. It’s probably imminent...