Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, that is my point. We should be providing this service as essential services in all communities. We should not have to go outside of the community, but see that there is a building or a home in the communities that we can use.
You look at the children who are being taken away in foster homes and most of the children are native people from aboriginal communities. I think it sends a bad message that this government knows it is a problem. By having these facilities in the communities you do not have to take the children away from their community, their family, their grandparents, their brothers and sisters.
I think we somehow have to put a human touch on this thing so that we do not forget about those communities that need this essential service like anything else. I think because of the lack of service being provided by this government, it adds that much more of a problem, only you do not have a social worker, you may not have a mental health worker, you may not have policing. I think the frustration in the communities that do not have these services is that they do feel they are being treated at a lower class of service than most of the regional centres that you mentioned.
There are 30-odd communities out there. Out of that, 27 of those communities are small communities. You said there were four in small communities, yet there are still 23 other communities out there. Why is it they do not have this service and what are we doing to improve that in all communities?