Jackson Lafferty

Mr. Chair, that is certainly highlighted. We’ve already initiated with other departments and also with the federal government, so I think we are slowly moving in that direction. When we talk about per capita funding, that’s before us. So certainly the Member’s comments are taken into consideration. I think that’s an avenue that we need to explore with our Justice department and with other departments as well.

Interjection.

The proposed savings by eliminating the position would be $87,000. Mahsi.

Mahsi, Mr. Chair. These positions that are highlighted here are based on each region’s…. The corrections or programs that are being delivered. It is not necessarily a headquarters position, but those are positions like Hay River, the South Slave Corrections. Those are the positions that are in that riding.

Certainly there are incidents at the Corrections. The avenue that, I guess, we’ll access will be at Stanton. But we will certainly continue to monitor that. Mahsi.

Mahsi, Mr. Chair. That is something we need to look at. It is part of the process of going through the Main Estimates. Certainly we’ll take that into account.

Mahsi, Mr. Chair. My understanding is that the federal funding is only provided to the young offenders, not the adults.

Mahsi, Mr. Chair. We do have some breakdown of per capita funding, with all the five regions: North Slave, South Slave, Inuvik, Sahtu and Deh Cho. I am not sure if you want to get into each community and how much they are getting. I can do that if the Member wants.

Mahsi, Mr. Chair. To date we have two inmates at Arctic Tern.

Mahsi, Mr. Chair. This area will be offset by contribution funding received from the federal government through the Aboriginal Justice Strategy initiative, which will be a vested interest in supporting programs outside a formal justice system, onto the communities.

Basically, this puts back into this particular program that we’re referring to. We are highlighting areas where we need to be creative and where we can improve in certain areas and where we can be cost-effective with our program delivery. We are maximizing our efforts into the communities, especially with respect to the programming...

Mr. Chair, the Member is referring to an RFP that went out. It reflects on the North Slave Young Offenders Facility, not the North Slave Correctional Centre. Mahsi.