Mr. Chairman, perhaps the Minister does not quite understand what I am saying. The question was, why is the department not placing this issue as one of the highest priorities within the department or the government? The initiative has to come from the department, Mr. Chairman. If that initiative is not brought forward by the department who is ultimately responsible for the alcohol and drugs program, then who is? It will not be the Minister of Education bringing that issue up. Renewable Resources will not be pushing that issue. It is the Department of Social Services. That is where their responsibilities lie.

I am suggesting to the Minister that this whole issue on drugs and alcohol has to be placed as a high priority for the department. I am suggesting the Minister should be pushing that within her own department and trying to convince her colleagues on that side of the House to try to make it an overall priority for the government as a whole.