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(Return tabled) Question No. 1187 Hon. Carolyn Bennett: With regard to First Nations policing: (a) which First Nations policing agreements will expire on March 31, 2013 or March 31, 2014, broken down by (i) community, (ii) type of agreement, (iii) population served by the agreement, (iv) number of officers funded by the agreement; (b) of these agreements that will expire on March 31, 2013 or March 31, 2014, which ones does the government plan to renew and what are the terms for each renewed agreement; (c) are any existing agreements being extended on a short-term basis only and, if so, why; (d) of those First Nations and Inuit communi ...[+++]ties with policing agreements in place, which ones have been consulted in the last 28 months about the status of their agreement, (i) where did these consultations take place, (ii) when were they held, (iii) with whom, (iv) if no such consultations were held, why not and are there currently plans to hold consultations with First Nations and Inuit communities about the status of their agreement; (e) why are most First Nation Police Services operating on short term agreements or on one or two year extensions; (f) does the government have plans to replace year-to-year agreements with longer term agreements of a five year duration or more; (g) why does the government approve extensions and funding for many First Nations Police Service agreements a short time before they expire; (h) does the government have plans to expand this program to additional First Nations and Inuit communities currently without a policing service agreement, (i) if so, which communities, (ii) if not, why not; (i) will federal funding levels for the First Nations Policing Program change overall after March 31, 2013 and if so, by how much, broken down by agreement; (j) how many communities served by a policing agreement have Community Consultative Groups in place and which communities are they, broken down by community; (k) for those communities without Commun ...

I could ask her an open-ended question.

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As far as his specific question about the free flow of logs, I do not have an answer but I will try to get one for the honourable senator.

Hon. Richard J. Stanbury (Acting Deputy Leader of the Government): Honourable senators, I have four delayed answers, including a response to a question raised in the Senate on November 22, 1995, by the Honourable Senator Mira Spivak regarding greenhouse gas emissions; a response to a question raised in the Senate on February 11, 1997, by the Honourable Senator Lynch-Staunton regarding intergovernmental affairs, changes to section 93 of the Constitution requested by the province of Quebec accompanied by historic linguistic guarantees; ...[+++] a response to a question raised in the Senate on February 13, 1997, by the Honourable Senator Richard J. Doyle regarding safety of blood supply; and a response to a question raised in the Senate on March 12, 1997, by the Honourable Senator Roberge regarding PCO transfer of personnel from ministers' offices.