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.