Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I strongly believe there has to be some means and mechanism in place to allow children, especially children who find themselves in comparable situations, where they are being interrogated or being transferred from one community in Fort Smith or where they are housed in jail cells with adults. These things do occur where they are transferred from one community to another in regard to movement by air craft where they are with other criminals, yet they are classified as young offenders. I think we have to take into account that these things happen, but there is no real process of how a youth, who is in trouble with the law or what not, has an avenue where they can grieve concerns of how they have been treated. Because a lot of times, the person you are grieving to is the same department that put you there to begin with, which is social services. There has to be, that arms length, distribution of how they are being dealt with and being allowed the ability to have a mechanism that they can grieve these grievances with the government. With that, Mr. Chairman, I would like to move a motion.
David Krutko on Committee Motion 22-13(5): To Identify The Amount Of Federal Funding For Western NWT Aboriginal Health Care
In the Legislative Assembly on February 24th, 1998. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 22-13(5): To Identify The Amount Of Federal Funding For Western NWT Aboriginal Health Care
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 24th, 1998
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