Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The other area that I touched on is the lack of infrastructure in our communities, especially housing. In trying to recruit people, one of the biggest challenges we have in our smaller communities is just trying to get professionals, such as mental health workers, into our communities when you do not have accommodation for these individuals because of the lack of housing in our communities. I would like to ask the Minister what he is doing to ensure that we do have the facilities or resources to ensure that these people coming to our communities are assisted in the different areas, that we try to find adequate housing, working with the private sector or working with the communities to have the resources to do that.
I will use an example. In the community of Tsiigehtchic, they have been trying to get a mental health worker and also trying to get someone to work in the economic development area, but there is no housing. The band has gone out of their way to purchase two trailers to bring into the community but it is at their cost. This government is not assisting in that area. That is the frustration in our small communities.
The government has not put any real infrastructure or any major capital investment into our communities and we are feeling the effects of these various programs and trying to deliver these programs in our communities but not being able to attract people because of things that are workable. A simple thing like housing or accommodation we do not have in most of our communities.
I would like to ask the Minister if there is a program or something in place to assist communities such as Tsiigehtchic, where they have had to go out of their way to purchase trailers to bring into the community and set them up for mental health workers, teachers or other professionals?