Thank you, Madam Speaker.

WHEREAS, family violence will only be contained and reduced if northern society refuses to continue to tolerate its occurrence;

AND WHEREAS, the Legislative Assembly and the Government of the Northwest Territories have adopted the principle of "zero tolerance" of violence against all people;

AND WHEREAS, there is a desperate and urgent need to offer programs such as shelters and support services across the Northwest Territories;

AND WHEREAS, family violence prevention workers, under very challenging fiscal conditions, continue to provide a variety of quality services to a number of families and individuals that seem to grow dramatically each year;

NOW THEREFORE I MOVE, seconded the honourable Member for Iqaluit, that the Government of the Northwest Territories begin to live up to its adopted commitment to zero tolerance by providing an increased salaries and benefit package to family violence prevention workers, comparable to those salaries and benefits being equivalent to positions within the Government of the Northwest Territories.