Thank you, Mr. Speaker. With regard to the overall cost to this government continuing to depend on southern institutions and not support initiatives of aboriginal groups and individual programs to help the elderly and the youth ... This could be one of the better institutions in Canada. The program we have at the Tl'oondih Healing Society is the second program and maybe the only program that is structured to deliver a family-oriented healing program where it encompasses parents, children and grandparents to deal with matters that have affected them for the last decade. Some of their problems are incarcerations in southern institutions, the hostel systems you hear about and the day-to-day stress of having to live in the communities and live with alcoholism, drug abuse and suicides.

This government has to clearly come up and state a position on supporting northern institutions to their fullest or are they there just as a band-aid solution to carry out programs, but not giving them the support they need to adequately do the job that will benefit everyone in the North. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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