Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am intrigued with the Minister's response, and thankfully in a sense, I am not limited to supplementary questions here so I will continue on.

Seeing that this is a very important, as I see it, act that could be put into place, and the sooner the better, I would hope, because it has been a concern raised in numerous communities as well as different Assemblies of this government. Now at last we are talking about getting an act together in the sense of a prevention act, a Family Violence Prevention Act. I think it is important to find out where indeed it would be and what time lines we would be looking for. It might be in Justice's hands, but in fact this department seems to be the one that would have to pay for services provided in the existing system so there would be some, I think, effect and benefit to this department if in fact this act comes into force, the sooner the better.

Can we find out when in fact we might see some movement in this and what could we be looking forward to? Is it possibly in the life of this Assembly? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I look forward to that information being provided in the area of time lines when this Family Violence Prevention Act might come into play within this Assembly.

Further on this issue, Mr. Chairman, I would just like to follow up. There have been some comments about services provided and the impact on communities, mainly in the small areas. I would like to reference an issue I have raised a number of times with Ministers of Health and Social Services of this government in the area of shelters.

There is one in the community of Inuvik and it has had quite some time and difficulty in meeting its yearly budget requirements. It has been a fight for ongoing years to try to ensure that they can make it through a year-end.

Thankfully this year I think there was some work done in the previous year, that so far it seems to be okay. It is a concern. One of the other Members raised the issue of areas of increased economic prosperity also brings some negative side effects. Unfortunately, when there are more dollars around, there are at times more situations that happen in families that would require these services.

I would like to know if there have been any plans developed to deal with this increased requirement for services such as shelters. This is short term, not talking years out, because the impact is already starting to be felt in some communities. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Minister stated that making the case to get more funds, would that be a case to Cabinet to try and find more funds or within existing allotments? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There again, is there a certain time line that we would be looking at to try and pull this together? It has been some time. In fact, my time during the 13th Assembly, a big concern from my community was the fact that we were leading, to a certain degree, the reduction scenarios as they played out by the government as this government went through cutting programs and services.

It was not a good thing to go back to the home community to tell your constituents that jobs were being lost because of the situation we are in. I do not think we have ever gone back up to that scenario where, at least in regional centres, a lot of jobs were lost and programs cut. In Inuvik, for example, Delta House was shut down and now we are sort of mix and matching alcohol and drug programs to try to fit with what is there. I do not know if we can actually say that the funding levels have gone up to the equivalent of what would have been there prior to the 13th Assembly reductions. I am interested in these areas, knowing that Inuvik is in the centre right now of a lot of activity and services are being drawn on from other communities as well. They are having a big impact.

I would like to know from the Minister what kind of time line we could be looking at for this. Thank you.