(Translation) Thank you, Mr. Chairman. (Translation ends) (Microphone turned off)...NWT. The Member is correct. We have 71 beds all together that are funded through contributions through social services. I do recognize the fact that we need some planning along with the recommendations that were made by the Special Committee on Social Services and Health. Battered women, especially, are the ones who always have to leave the community. One of the recommendations -- if I recall correctly -- is that the abusers should be the ones to leave home. So, there are a whole range of recommendations and along with the plans that Social Services will be making, a definite plan will emerge.
With group homes, I do agree with the Member from Thebacha, that it is confusing when we have different names for group homes when they should just be called "group home." When the territorial government took over the one in Hay River, "Emergency Group Home" stuck from when it was operated by the federal government. We just adopted it that way. I do agree with the Member that we need a group home.
Concerning the Rankin Inlet Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centre, a nine-bed facility may not sound like very much, but I think it's enough for the population of a little over 7,000 people. There are people who have been saying that it should be put in a dry community, but that would just mean extra dollars for transporting people who need treatment to a dry community where there is a lot less of a drinking problem. I do recognize that Rankin Inlet is not a dry community and it is the biggest community in the Keewatin region. I know the problems with alcohol there are greater than any other community in the Keewatin region. Thank you.