Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is to the Right Honourable Minister of Health and Social Services, Mr. Kelvin Ng. As you quoted in your statement earlier, there were negotiations with the Gwich'in where there was $300,000 given. But the motion which was passed in the House in Committee of the Whole clearly states that the Tl'oondih Healing Society negotiate in an effort to provide core funding to the Society on the same level as provided to other institutions. That is what the motion says. The $300,000 that you mentioned is for non-insured health benefits so the program is delivered for status and Inuit people. The $300,000, compared to other institutions such as Delta House which received $634,000 and out of that $500,000 is wages, does not seem too fair when it comes

to $300,000 to implement programs on behalf of status and Inuit people. Another comparison is Northern Addictions and Services which receives over $1 million, salaries alone were $761,000. On top of that, the operation costs, they received funds to deliver programs on the number of people that they have in their institutions. The problem that we have with the Tl'oondih Healing program is that without core funding we cannot compete on the same basis as these other institutions which are privately funded with help of over $1 million a piece. For $300,000 to deliver a program in our facility works out to about $75 a bed night which is costing the Tl'oondih Healing Society almost $280 a night. So we are losing over $120 per bed. If we had core funding we would be able to compete and maintain that. So my question to the Minister is, will the Minister reconsider looking at the issue, considering years-as any other healing program, alcohol program in the Northwest Territories which has funding fully allocated for the whole year which consists of core funding to be treated on the basis as everyone else? I am talking core funding, Mr. Minister.