Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am not arguing against the need for those programs, Mr. Chairman. However, what I am concerned about is the fact that we have social workers now who do not have time because they are so far behind the 8-ball when it comes to trying to deal with the situations. I believe we have children at risk in the Northwest Territories.

Having all the programs in place does not do you any good if the workers themselves do not have time to deal with the families in crisis, if they do not have time to deal with the kids who are in trouble.

That is the situation I think we are in right now and I think the Child Welfare League Report confirmed that. It did say that there was a crisis when it came to dealing with the number of workers, specifically in Yellowknife and in the Deh Cho region.

Mr. Chairman, again, we talked earlier about having to set priorities if dollars are limited. I would have to question whether or not this is the right split, or whether or not some of these monies should not be split off from program development into making sure that we could increase the numbers of workers quickly.

I just recently got a letter from the Minister of Health and Social Services telling me they could not find the funding to continue providing Yellowknife Health and Social Services with the money they had had last year for three temporary positions.

So we are in a situation where I am scared that kids are going to be put at risk because we are not finding enough workers to deal with their immediate needs. I think that we need to reexamine where our priorities our here. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.