R.J. Simpson

Thank you. And this was mentioned earlier, and I wanted to comment on it but I didn't. But the Department of Justice does receive a lot of federal funding through agreements. Those agreements never seem to line up well with the main estimates process and so we'll often come here with a line item of zero or a certain number that will then be adjusted through a supplementary appropriation once we sign that agreement. So Members will probably be seeing a bit of that in here. But for a specific answer, I'd hand it to Mr. Bancroft. Thank you.

Thank you. So we work with the RCMP to determine resourcing levels, and if there are increases that they are requesting then we can work with them to implement those. And depending on the type of service, generally we pay 70 percent and the federal government pays 30 percent of those costs. We do have the First Nation and Inuit policing program where it is more of a 50/50 cost sharing split. Thank you.

I'm sorry, if the Member could repeat the question; I didn't quite catch the end.

Thank you. So one of the issues here is that this budget is this budget. In this budget, there is not funds to expand integrated case management to other jurisdictions or other areas in the territory. So I can't speak for what the next government will do so that is why I say there's a plan. Will it happen? I'm not sure. If I was around, I think I might go in a different direction. I can get the deputy minister to expand on the Member's question, though. Thank you.

I'll hand it to the deputy minister.

Thank you. So there are two positions in the Tlicho region, two probation officer positions and they're both in Behchoko. And we don't have a plan right now to create a position in Whati. Thank you.

$5,314,000.

Thank you. I'd like to hand it to Mr. Bancroft.

Thank you. The current plan is to look at other demonstration sites that we call ICM; in Yellowknife, a demonstration site. Looking at ways to create demonstration sites in other communities. However, I would say that there are other initiatives that might overtake this and perhaps change that plan going forward. So, yes, there's a plan. I'm not confident that that plan is the actual path forward. And I'm sorry if that's cryptic but this is we are going through, you know, some discussions and some soul searching about what we want to do in terms of integrated service delivery. Thank you.

Thank you. With me, I have deputy minister of the Department of Justice, Charlene Doolittle. As well as James Bancroft, the director of corporate services. Thank you.