Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Premier has stated that the government is committed to improving social conditions, empowering communities and working towards community wellness through community based solutions. Ironically, community based improved programs like the Tl'oondih Healing Society, which, to date, there was a motion passed in the Committee of the Whole, and basically, nothing has been done.
So far, nothing has been done in regards to core funding, other healing programs are being funded over a million dollar a year, federal government has developed an initiative with the Tl'oondih Healing Society to manage and assist clients once they complete the Tl'oondih Healing program. This agreement was signed this summer between Human Resource Development Canada to develop and aftercare program to help individuals requiring skills and participate in the labour market in a more transactional way and become more independent.
I would like to also comment on the various Ministers' statements in regards to community empowerment. Community well being, fairness for all and all the other fairy tale stories that are being told and political promises are great. But in my riding there are 1700 people who receive capital expenditure of $900,000 per year compared to the other ridings. In my constituency over the last ten years, the capital spending works out to about $1200 per person compared to the next closest riding of Nunakput of $2300 per person.
The following ridings in the south received almost twice or three times as much revenues as I do in my riding in regards to loss of jobs, business opportunities and training, potential for benefits in my constituency, so I have received not as much as others over the last ten years.
On topics in regards to the other question, in government layoffs I received five percent of those cuts, and also, in regards to the Mackenzie Delta region, denied a project, that is the community correction facility for Aklavik and the Knute Lang learning and development correction centre, has been.
Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to conclude my statement.