Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister responsible for Health and Social Services in regard to a statement I made regarding the lack of resources and also the lack of support mechanisms in our communities to deliver programs that relate to community violence within the family and also within our communities. I think one of the big problems we see in our communities is the way the system operates. If there is violence within the home, it seems like it is the mother and the children who are taken out of the home, sent outside the communities and then a lot of times have to come back to that same environment without dealing with the problems at hand.

A concern that I have is that I think it is important that this government finds a way that we can try to sit down with the families, the communities and find a mechanism to resolve these issues within the communities, so that mothers and children do not have to leave their homes, that there are mechanisms there that we can work on to do that.

One of the concerns I have, Mr. Speaker, is that one of the fundamental principles that this government has is that the Minister and health boards have as principle number one that all residents of the Northwest Territories will have access to services and needs and are treated fairly in respect to health and social service systems. Yet, Mr. Speaker, the concern I have is that the way programs and services are delivered, it seems like a lot of these programs are at the larger centres, yet there is nothing at the community level.

So I would like to ask the Minister what is she doing to improve the development of the programs for violence in families and also in communities so that we can have a community-based program so that we can deal with these problems in the small communities?