Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Minister responsible for Health and Social Services. It is in regard to the whole idea of having self-reliant individuals, families and communities, and working with government towards improving the social well-being of our communities.

Mr. Speaker, I have a real problem when we make that type of statement, yet today a lot of communities do not even have the basic resource people in our communities. The community of Tsiigehtchic does not have a social worker or a police officer located in the community, but they have some major social problems that have arrived lately, like suicides. Mr. Speaker, it is a problem and it has to be dealt with.

I would like to ask the Minister responsible for Health and Social Services exactly what her department is doing to ensure that communities receive that self-reliance, and to improve the social well-being of our communities by ensuring every community has the resources and the people in those communities to carry out those responsibilities? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.