Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think Members of the committee found that what Mr. Lewis is saying is far too often the case in many communities across the north. There really is a problem with elders not being accorded a place in our society that they should be. I want to make clear to Mr. Lewis that this recommendation doesn't necessarily follow from what you read and what we started with today.
In fact, everything that Mr. Koe has read today have been recommendations. In other words, we are recommending the involvement of respected elders in community-based counselling programs. We believe that is important. One of the reasons it didn't show up in a separate recommendation in this report is because our interim report number three introduced a recommendation into this House -- which did get passed by the Legislature -- which urged the government to get involved in a pilot project involving the provision of what we call para-professional counselling at the community level.
What we are talking about here, in the lead up to the recommendation, was using respected elders and other people from the community. In previous reports, we've talked about making sure that respected elders do get their place as counsellors in our society. Because it was one of the recommendations we had dealt with earlier, it didn't show up as one of the numbered recommendations in this report.
As I said, Mr. Chairman, even though a motion is not coming forward saying, for instance, that elders should be assisted to remain in their communities and the provision of local palliative care should be encouraged wherever possible, it is the feeling of our committee that all the things we raise in our report -- whether they are put forward as motions or not -- are things we are expecting the government to act upon. We are hoping we will see some action in those areas. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.