Mr. Speaker, the first issue is that prisons and museums tend to be the same in relation to the act before us and some of the justice applications the hon. member is discussing.
I am not a legal professional. Nor do I profess to be. My party has looked at this issue and will be studying it in great detail in committee. As the hon. member is aware, we have a golden opportunity to look at a trial case of implementing a one court system in northern Canada where there are huge amounts of territory, a duplication of task and an overlapping of jurisdiction. If we can solve the problem with the one court system then we are in favour of it.
On the question of whether or not incarceration will take place in the north there is an agreement in place. The details of that agreement after a two year sentence are unclear. We will be looking at that in committee. A number of questions with respect to the legislation have not yet been answered. It is important to remember that it is a trial case. We have a perfect opportunity to introduce a one court system, to look at it and to study it further.
On the third question of the western Arctic and the Yukon territory, they have been looking very closely at this system. It is something they would be very interested in. They also have the opportunity to wait and see. For them there is a benefit to be derived from that.
In the eastern Arctic there are 2.242 million square kilometres of territory and 26 villages. It is a very difficult to wait and see if they need the single court system now.