Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, a report that is long overdue in this House, which we are still waiting to have the Minister table, is the review of Health and Social Services and the department's response to that report.

Mr. Speaker, there are still many unresolved issues, especially coming from the small communities when it comes to treatment facilities and programs and services.

Right now, a lot of communities have accessed federal programs in which they are ensuring they are able to carry those out. There are early childhood programs, the community access program, and the Aboriginal Head Start Program. These programs are all administered through different aboriginal communities which are funded from the federal government, but yet this government is very reluctant to move when aboriginal initiatives want to take ownership and control of the problems that they see in front of them.

I raised this issue a trillion times in the 13th Assembly with the previous Minister, about alcohol and drug programs, such as Tl'oondih, Delta House, and other treatment facilities which have been closed down to make way for a more centralized control approach by this government.

Yet what we see is that waiting and wondering at those experiences where we are not seeing the results we saw previously. In regards to the different programs, there were initiatives tried, such as the Tl'oondih program, which was a child and family treatment facility which was offered to deal with families as a whole.

There was talk about different programs in different areas for the communities like the North Slave who want to take more control over the problems they see with alcohol and drugs, and deal with the community problems themselves.

Yet we do not see much movement in this area. So with that, Mr. Speaker, I will be asking the Minister questions on this matter shortly. Thank you.

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