Mr. Chairman, the fact is, where people commit crimes or are charged with spousal assault, traditionally, we often take the victims and the children out of the community. We fly them out to other communities that have programs or facilities available to them. Social assistance is provided to these victims. There are some cases where it is the offender, the person who is charged or has been sentenced, who is prohibited from being present in the community where they committed the offence.
We can check into the specific cases that the Member is referring to and make sure that there are provisions made to these individuals. For instance, when they should be given social assistance, if that is what they are eligible for, but we would also be interested to see what we could do with communities. For instance, the Deh Cho region, if they should propose, we could sit down immediately to have a talk about any interest they may have in providing facilities and support systems for people like this. I would be very interested if the Member would suggest a meeting with some leaders in his community to discuss this, because courts and agencies are starting to move this way. The number of people who may end up going to larger regional centres, such as Fort Simpson, are not going to diminish. It may increase. It may be a very good time now to do something, at least start discussing this development with a view to come up with something that would address the situation.