Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I too support the notion of zero tolerance but I believe it is critical, Mr. Speaker, that we as a government provide the resources that are going to be needed to deal with this problem. We cannot continue to operate with the concept that we can manage the problem for the people by taking people out of families, putting them into shelters, taking the children away and putting them in facilities outside the communities. This has to be dealt with at the community level and the resources have to be there to combat violence in our communities.

I had the opportunity to host the Governor General in Fort McPherson earlier this summer. When we met with the community justice committee and elders in our community, one of the biggest topics raised in that meeting was family violence and how we as community members and as governments can deal with this problem.

One thing that was notable were the restraints put in place by the laws that we have, the resources in our communities to deal with these problems, and also the lack of, or in some cases the very need, to have resource people in our communities to deal with these problems and not take our problems out of our communities and not deal with the problem at home.

I for one feel it is critical, Mr. Speaker, that as a government, we have to improve the resources we have in this area. We have to improve facilities to deal with this problem.

I combated this problem in the 13th Assembly in dealing with the Tl'oondih Healing Program. The Gwich'in Tribal Council invested over $2 million to construct a camp to deal with problems such as family violence, alcohol abuse, sexual abuse and other issues that are apparent in our communities. Yet to date we have received very little support from this government.

How can we as a government stand up and say we support zero tolerance without having the resources in place to do the job to ensure that we change our laws, improve the structures we have in our communities to assist people who have been violated and to assist those people who have carried out the violence? We can do something to change this problem.

With that, Mr. Speaker....