Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Our next resolution has to deal with alcohol and drug strategy. The committee was shocked to learn that up to 25 percent of the children in some communities are affected by parental alcohol abuse, including fetal alcohol syndrome.
We can assume that similar statistics may appear in the rest of the Northwest Territories. If ever we were unsure of how to measure our performance as a government, and a society, we now know. Up to 25 percent of our children have special needs and problems which will affect them, and us, for the rest of their lives, and we do not have a strategy to deal with it. What is the long-term cost of doing nothing?