Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It gives me great honour to read the press release yesterday in relation to students from Fort McPherson who will be spending time at the Tl'oondih Healing Camp so that they can deal with the many issues that affect our students these days in relation to community concerns; also the thing that has affected the community the most in the last year, the arsons of the two fires; also to deal with the question of consultation and working along with children, parents, to make them aware of issues that effect them in regards to alcoholism and drug abuse, the question about suicides and what they are trying to do in relation to the community politics, and also what the healing camp consists of.
Mr. Speaker, in the last year since I arrived here, I have raised several questions and passed motions. There have been petitions passed in this House in relation to this issue. There was also a committee struck between the Minister, the Premier, the Minister of Finance, myself and members of the Gwich'in Tribal Council and the Tl'oondih Healing Society. Yet today after all consultation, the Minister still leaves a grey cloud over the community on exactly where we are going to go in relation to an investment that was made by the community for the people of Mackenzie Delta and the Northwest Territories to deal with healing and a program to deal with family programs that we have established.
Mr. Speaker, in relation to the attempts by the community to allow themselves to heal and to deal with the problems that affect a lot of our communities day in and day out, this initiative has been endorsed by the federal government. It has been endorsed by band councils, committee councils and also a lot of people in the north who have benefited from this program. Yet until today, I still do not see the support that I was hoping would be there from this government. Mr. Speaker, at the appropriate time, I will be asking the Minister questions on this matter. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.