Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I am standing here today to support the motion. I think this declaration on family violence is a very good initiative on our part. It will demonstrate to people in the North that we are putting on notice that we are aware of the violence that takes place and has been going on for many years.
I am aware of it as a former chief in my community. I have dealt with many instances of this nature and it continues today. We are all aware of it and we want to bring awareness to this situation here in the North in our society. We are here elected by everybody in our constituency, or the majority of the people in our constituency, to represent them the best we can. We are here to try and make life better for people in the North in all ways. We build facilities. We fix the roads. We put programs and services in place and we are throwing money at different things that we are trying to make life better in the North. At the same time, there are relationships that go on in our communities and the homes that we are saying are not right.
There has to be a way of addressing it. We cannot go into every home and try to correct everything. I think by making this statement here in the House and challenging our northern leaders, including the leaders of the aboriginal governments and organizations, municipal governments, trade unions, boards, agencies, societies to adopt this principle of zero tolerance.
So we are putting a challenge out there to all the leaders in different organizations in our communities to say that we understand this situation exists. It is perhaps a little better than it used to be a long time ago, but it is still there and we should all try to make life better for all our people in our communities. So for that, I am standing here in support of this motion. Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.