Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have been listening for a while yesterday and today with regard to this whole issue of AIDS. However, I have not heard anything positive with regard to why this discussion is taking place. What is the purpose of it? If it is to make public aware? The public is listening to this kind of conversation with no direction. I do not know what the purpose of it is.
On the other hand, you talked about professional ethnics. I would also like to touch a bit on human ethnics too. We have a situation in which this sickness is multiplying. As you suggested yesterday, we may have 11, but it could be very well that we have 211. Possibly by the year 2010 we will have eliminated ourselves from the face of the earth if we continue to hide and protect the people who have AIDS, and not let the other people who are not infected be protected. I do not know where to go from here, Mr. Chairman. With no answers, I do not know how we can address it.
The other thing too is that we have done things like put condoms in the bathrooms in the schools and possibly even sending strong messages to the students that sex is all right as long as you practice safe sex. There is a moral issue, which I think even clergymen should be addressing.
When I was growing up, I grew up with strict parents. Residential schools were strict with regard to boys and girls. Even the dress code reflected that. I came to Yellowknife in 1963 when they had a flood in Fort Simpson. The girls had dresses down to their ankles, twisting away.
We have not addressed that at all. We have not sent anything to the young people regarding the moral issue. I do not know if we require stricter ways of dealing with the young people, but if we keep talking about AIDS as a symptom and do not address it as human behaviour, we are not doing any justice to anyone by discussing it. There has not been any positive responses I have received from the witnesses or the Minister with regard to this issue. Everything looks bleak, blank and grey. I feel hopeless sitting here trying to find an answer, and I am sure the witnesses are doing the same thing. I think we should do a bit more than just discuss it, I think we should be doing something with regard to human ethics, too.