Mr. Chairman, on the issue of social assistance payments, I know it's an issue that comes up all the time -- whether a person can survive on social assistance. We have that responsibility and I'll take a look at that. I will talk to the Member about some of the things I see that we can do, person to person, on that issue.

Regarding the process of treatment for drugs and alcohol, if there's a centre in a community, people have to access that centre before they can go to the regional one. After the regional centre, if they want to go to something outside of the region, there's another process. We'll have to look at that because I know there have been several complaints where people have said they are not going to get the treatment in their community, that they know they won't get the treatment and they have to go to another place. Right now, because we put more regional responsibility in, they are the ones who are making the decision about whether people go from a community centre to a regional centre, from a regional centre to a territorial treatment centre. It's causing frustration.

I don't know exactly what we can do about it because we did say that the regions should try to look at what stage a person stays in a community and at what stage a person moves from A to B. I'm aware of the frustration that people are having. If there's another way we can take care of people's desire to seek treatment...I think the important part, if an individual is looking at repairing some of the problems they're having, is we should do as much as we can to get them to the right place. I'll look at that as well because it's an ongoing concern that we have.