Mr. Chairman, the only reason custom adoption is recognized right now is because it has been kept away from the white law books. That's what makes a custom. Once you put it into the white system of law, it is no longer custom adoption. It becomes part of the white judicial system. I don't know why it is so difficult to recognize that. I'm saying it is recognized now, under section 35 of the Constitution. I think the case you have referred to has already been overturned. The grandparents of this custom adoption child who died because of an accident, have been awarded the insurance. The decision was only based on section 35 of the Constitution, I believe.
All I'm saying is why put something that is already recognized and is still an aboriginal custom, into law? I think that doing what you're doing might result in something like section 25 of the Education Act with regard to ethnic culture. I think it's section 25, but if it isn't, it's a section of the Education Act which says that we should start delivering aboriginal cultural programs in all the schools.
So it becomes, again, law, white law, in which my responsibility as an aboriginal person is given to the white system of law to be delivered. It is something that I have been fighting with for I don't know how many years.
But, again, like I said, Madam Minister, when you take away part of the culture and you adopt it into a different system, it really takes away something, a piece of yourself, I would think, and we still think that we don't have any...We know what the problems are.
Again, you did talk about violence, and, yes, violence is five times the national average, just as suicide is. Also, the prisons are five times the national average, too. But we knew that ten years ago and we still don't have an answer for it. I think it's a damned shame that, after all these years, we haven't identified anything that suggests what really is wrong. It really embarrasses me, Mr. Chairman, when we hear the media saying that these are the stats up here.
Mr. Chairman, just one more question and one other thing I wanted to ask the Minister about is with regard to a psychologist in Fort McPherson. Do you actually have a psychologist there right now?