Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would suggest that there are some good things in the Northwest Territories for seniors. I believe that we are starting to see the results of some of those things. This government has been very active through the years in considering elders' facilities. When you visit some of these facilities, you can see that we have some facilities which are extraordinarily well designed. We have had a great deal of community input from the elders themselves in the design and the construction of those facilities. It has been part of the process to involve elders in the design of some of these programs.
When you look at the old age pension and the guaranteed income supplement, this government took the steps through the Legislative Assembly to provide a supplement to that. That supplement is currently at $135 a month. This government has also taken the initiative of providing a subsidy for fuel for seniors living in their own accommodation, in order to try to equalize the cost of living for an individual who is living in their own home, as opposed to someone who is living in one of the government subsidized units. I believe that has been a very positive step. The seniors themselves are slowly getting together. There is a seniors' society in the Northwest Territories. There are groups of seniors in other communities who are being encouraged by this umbrella body. There is not, as was mentioned earlier, an organized program for seniors funded through the Department of Social Services at the present time, but certainly in discussions with representatives from the seniors' society, there is an interest in seeing this happen. For the first time, Ministers responsible for seniors across the country met in November. This was a milestone in the partnership between seniors in the country and their governments and was seen as such. In my opinion, those would be some of the very positive things which are occurring in the Northwest Territories.