Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Minister may be offended by my insinuation that she is backing away from her commitment, but it is not just an insinuation. The letter we received some time after the meeting with the committee, in which numbers were spoken, does not contain any numbers. In fact, the letter makes it clear that there is going to be some consultation now to determine where the positions are going to go and, as the letter says, "Will not only take the Child Welfare League's information into consideration." So it seems to me that there has been a clear backing away from what was a commitment made to Members earlier.

My question though, and even of more concern to me, is the fact that it appears that I had assumed that we were going to see a quicker response in the city of Yellowknife. I thought the funding that had been provided to get us the increase in two workers and one support staff person would be provided as ongoing funding to Yellowknife Health and Social Services, so those positions could at least be there in the base and we might be looking at perhaps another three or four of the ten positions coming to Yellowknife to try to deal with the shortfall here.

Will the Minister commit to re-examining that issue and see whether there is some way to maintain the funding that has been provided as one-time funding to give a head start, at least to Yellowknife Health and Social Services, to deal with their critical problem? Then also ensure that there is a reasonable allocation from the ten that comes to Yellowknife.