Another area I wanted to touch on is the whole area of treatment services. The Tl'oondih Healing Camp, which was built by the Gwich'in Tribal Council to a tune of over $2 million, is still available for providing programs and services. Right now, they kind of contract the facility out to different groups and agencies that want to deliver a certain program. They do support core programs by way of the different treatment programs where they have accessed funding through the aboriginal healing program.

Due to the concerns that have been raised in this House that we only have one treatment centre in the Northwest Territories with 39 beds, we should start taking advantage of those facilities that are elsewhere, besides the present facility that we have been using and sending clients to southern Canada. If anything, we should be working in conjunction with these different organizations who have these facilities and offer the use of these facilities for treatment. I feel that the Inuvik region is not using it as much as they could be.

You have the different aboriginal groups who have been using it for their programs. Yet the regional health board has not been using it to facilitate it for different programs. Also, we could save a lot more money keeping it in the region than having to send them to Hay River or southern Canada. Have they looked at or started dialogues with the different treatment service providers who are in the North to see if we can access their facilities, rather than having to continue depending on southern facilities?