Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would just like to thank the Member for Mackenzie Delta for his Member's statement today and for raising some of the concerns that are faced by communities in the area of family violence. This is a very important area and hearing the statements from the other side of the House today gives me some hope that as a government, collectively we can look very seriously at how we can start to resolve some of these problems.

Mr. Speaker, we do expend quite a substantial amount of resources in the North to address social problems under areas such as addictions and mental health, the children and youth programs, health promotion initiatives. There are activities which are gong on in the communities. Mr. Krutko raises the issue of women and children having to leave communities because of the lack of resources that are available and going to larger centres.

I guess just from a demographics logistics point of view, it does make sense that there are some resources located in larger communities, partly because of the population that they have to serve and also partly because of the volunteer component in some of the larger communities. However, we do try to be fair in terms of distribution of resources. When I look at the funding that goes into family violence, I do see quite a number of small communities that are represented there as well.

Certainly, the problem is large and we have a long way to go in addressing it. Thank you.