Thank you, Madam Speaker. I would like to direct a question to the acting Minister of Social Services. Madam Speaker, the Yellowknife Food Bank Society is very concerned about recent incidences happening at the Department of Social Services here in Yellowknife. Social Services has been recommending that people on social assistance go to the food bank to help them survive.
This is not the first time this has happened, according to the people from the Food Bank Society. They were never established to replace social assistance and the services, of course, will be badly disrupted if this continues. I would like to ask the Minister responsible whether or not it is a policy that social workers refer people to the Yellowknife Food Bank to help them survive?