We have a very young population, very young people having babies. You can discourage this as much as possible, but I am sure the Finance Minister would disagree with that. We need more people so that we can get better transfer payments.

People are not taking advantage of employment. People are having problems with employment because there are no babysitters available in the communities. There are no facilities available in the communities. There are programs run by the department, such as the Aboriginal Head Start Program and Tinkering Tots, but those are programs designated for certain age groups. There are a lot of people who fall through the cracks and do not qualify for that.

I think the department, in looking into the future and developing programs and services to advance and prepare people for careers in all the different employment sectors of the Northwest Territories, has to be cognizant and work with communities to establish facilities and infrastructure that can be used as day cares. They have to work with other departments of this government and possibly the federal government to accomplish this.

You can have ten positions available in a community like Lutselk'e, but if there is nobody taking advantage because they cannot find babysitters, what is the point? They can say that they offered it but nobody was interested. I think that is an excuse that has been used by this government far too many times. I would just like to know what the Minister's thoughts are on that, and if he is planning to do anything about that particular problem? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.