Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I find it kind of odd coming from the Minister that now he is using funding as an excuse not to do anything. This government supposedly has a surplus and for us to continue to use that as an argument, the first place this government cut previously when they had a deficit situation was they did away with programs and services in communities. They did away with efforts that were made to try and improve that service and moved everything to the regions.

Now, when we are in a financial situation where it looks like we have a surplus and we are going around doing all these great initiatives, but when it comes to communities, we are being left out of the loop again.

I would like to ask the Minister, you can hire all the social workers in the world, but at the end of the day if these children are in a crisis situation or a mother has to get out of the home or leave the community, why should they have to do that if they are the ones who are the victims here?

We as a government can spend millions of dollars in institutionalizing people by spending $40 million on correctional facilities and young offenders facilities and youth facilities, but when it comes to people in our communities who need some place to go that is safe, this government has no money.

What are you doing? If you are not going to do anything, say you are not going to do anything, but I think it is an important enough issue that as a government, if we can afford to build $40 million jail facilities to house the people who cause a lot of these crimes against women and children, we should be in a position of putting money into protecting victims of these crimes.

Will you seriously look at this issue and put money and resources into ensuring that we have a system in place and people have the opportunity in all communities in the Northwest Territories to know there is a safe place in that community where they can go if they are victimized by violence?