Masi. Mr. Chair, this is a particular area that is a high need for this government to deal with. The city and also the GNWT have been working together on this particular file through anti-poverty strategies over the years.

I have recently met with the Mayor Alty share some of my concerns, as my constituents are part of the homelessness in Yellowknife. How can we deal with those matters? She is willing to assess and help and wants to be a partner with the GNWT. Let's open those doors.

Not only that, but there have been transitional homes and safe homes as well. Just down the street from us, there is a hotel being converted into a home, but apparently the money kind of dried up, so it is kind of on hold, I believe, from my understanding. Those are areas that we need to look and re-evaluate what truly what happened there. It was going forward, and then all of a sudden, it is becoming a money issue.

Friendship centres are another one. A lot of our communities have them. I think that one of the areas that we can tackle is program delivery through the friendship centres to deal with homelessness. Like I stated earlier, bringing my constituents back to my community of Behchoko, I can only speak to that at this point. With addiction, like every community, we have challenges, but we have programs in the community. If we can expand on programs, I think that that is where we can commit as the GNWT, to expand more into program delivery into the communities.

Mr. Chair, just meeting with the Aboriginal leadership yesterday, again, they raised a lot of issues pertaining to addiction and homelessness. We need to tackle this at the forefront. Masi.