Thank you, Mr. Speaker. At this time, I would like to thank those Members, Mr. Barnabas, Mr. Evaloarjuk, Mr. Ningark, Mr. O'Brien, Mr. Picco, Mr. Rabesca, and Mr. Steen, for supporting me in the Motion, regardless of the fact that it did not go forth. I believe our message is now out there, where people can say this is an important item to the people on this side of the House. In concluding, Mr. Speaker, I find it awfully hard to believe that in this day and age when we talk about stimulating our economy, keeping incomes in our community, and keeping healthy and economically stable communities, to start taking away those little privileges that people have put into our society by paying mortgages for these units they live in, paying their property taxes, paying for the services that they use, water, sewer, light bills, which we, on the other hand, subsidize to the hilt of God knows what, in regards to all the other programs, especially in social housing.

So an individual who tries to maintain his own way of living by being independent, being productive to the community and society in general is being penalized. Yet this government spends in the area of $600,000, or $600,000,000 to clarify my point, in the area of the Social Envelope. To incarcerate people, pay for judges to basically incarcerate, to take children away from people's families, to basically penalize those people why are trying to be examples in communities, and basically find the resources to incarcerate people and also use those revenues for an individual who can be in government social housing, be an elder, and not pay any rent. Yet an individual who tries to maintain a household is penalized. There is something wrong with that.

We have to look at it in the context of how do we run government, and who are we penalizing here? The economy of the North should be maintained so that it is economically sound. Healthy communities have healthy people who are independent and show that they can make it.

Do not put them to the point where they become another social statistic in our elders' homes or in our social programs and dollars are being used to clothe, feed and in most cases, incarcerate those people at a fee of $80,000 a year to have 1 individual in the correctional system. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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