Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My other concern is in regards to an issue I raised earlier today, about the whole question of alcohol and drug treatment. It seemed like there has not been a real attempt to try to find ways of working through the dilemma that we are in. Seeing what happened with the Dettah treatment facility being taken over by Corrections Canada and the inability, especially in other regions, to establish a facility.

There used to be two operators within the Inuvik region. Right now, neither of them are dealing with an alcohol and drug program, which is regionalized where you have the program. This is more to do with corrections again, but what do we have in place for the people dealing with alcohol problems in our communities, where a lot of people want to receive treatment within their communities and within the regions?

So can the Minister tell me, or give me an idea of when will we hear an answer on the alcohol and drug programs? The Tl'oondih healing program, which started off a number of years ago, all of a sudden had to close its doors because it just could not receive the adequate funding to run such a program, and then the closure of Delta House on top of that. Those problems are still there in our communities.

I know that we have money in the budget for alcohol and drug programs in different communities, but that is more of an administration program. It is not really the way to deal with that crisis situation. You have a lot of cases where you have mental health workers who may be called in, or people like psychologists or whoever it is to deal with these people. We need people trained. We need people that work within an environment where they can deliver these programs.

So I would like to ask the Minister again, I know I asked the question earlier this afternoon, but I feel that it is important that we talk about healthy communities taking advantage of the economics that are in the area. Unless we have programs in place to assist people to get their lives in order, make them aware that you can change and do things in a positive light and realize that these problems will not go away strictly by telling people, "Well, if you just quit drinking, quit smoking, that is the end of it". I, personally, do not believe that is where the problem is. That is just a symptom of the problem. The problem is deeply rooted in regard to social and economic situations that people find themselves in.

They hear that millions of dollars are being spent on lawsuits. With the hospital situations in the Northwest Territories and also the social positions people find themselves in, especially being unemployed and having that social dependency, in order to break that we have to have healthy people. I think, in order to take advantage of any economic situation, we have to make some investments now to ensure we do make an attempt to deal with these problems and not just leave them for the next generation to deal with.

So I would like to ask the Minister, what are they doing in that area and will they consider making changes to the budget, the way money is being allocated, to consider regional institutions? Thank you.