Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Mr. Handley.

Mr. Chairman, it would be the same as for the children. It would be specialized care that would be available in these facilities. It is exactly the same circumstances. The issues around repatriating them to the North would be the same. I guess our response is the same. We are spending almost $2.5 million caring for these adults in the south. If it is possible to bring them North, then we should be doing that and we will make every effort to do it. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Handley. Mr. Krutko.

Is there a possibility of getting a geographical breakdown of exactly where these are from so we can get a general idea of the number from, say, the northern region versus the southern region?

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Mr. Handley.

Mr. Chairman, we gave it to the committee I believe, but I can give it to you by board. The Yellowknife board has 12 people out in the south; Fort Simpson, there are none right now; Inuvik, eight; the Dogrib board, one; and Hay River, one. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Handley. Page 11, total department, not previously authorized, $879,000.

Page 12, Justice, operations expenditures, services to government, not previously authorized, $15,000.

Registries and court services, not previously authorized, negative $46,000.

Community justice and corrections, not previously authorized, $26,000.

Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We seem to see a lot of reference to the Grollier Hall residence and school healing centre. There were other hostels and other facilities in the Northwest Territories besides Grollier Hall, and it seems like we are focusing on Grollier Hall. Do we have any funds or resources going to the other hostels or institutions that were in there the last number of years? There have been institutions in the North right up to the 1990s, and I am just wondering. It seems like we are only focusing on one general hostel, but we used to have a lot of hostels in the Northwest Territories. Are there also resources being spent with other groups, organizations or agencies that may represent other residences or whatnot from other hostels?

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Mr. Handley.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. To our knowledge this is the only school healing circle society with which we are in the alternate dispute resolution process. There is not any for the others right now. The money that is in here is for the ADR process. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Handley. Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The reason I asked is I was pretty impressed when I met with the Aboriginal Healing Foundation in Ottawa. They had a map on the wall of all of the hostels in the Northwest Territories. I was pretty amazed to find out that there was a hostel in Fort McPherson that was established back in 1898.

You look at the map on the wall that they had, there were a lot of hostels in the Northwest Territories. The reason I raise this question is that I think there are probably a lot of other people out there who may not be aware of this program or who are not accessing this program.

I think that if you do not include a process for these other individuals who may be out there, because you do talk to people who have gone through the hostel systems, especially people who were taken away from home for, in some cases, up to 10 years at a very young age and today, a lot of them do have problems and have social issues associated with it.

I think that as a government we should ensure that we do have a dispute mechanism or a process to resolve those outstanding issues also. I do not want ourselves or anyone to think we are only focusing on one particular area of concern or problem. We do have a lot of people in our communities and in our society who have had problems associated with this.

I am wondering, what are we doing to reach out to those other individuals so that they can also have a process in place to resolve the outstanding problems that may have occurred through the hostel systems of the Northwest Territories?

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Mr. Handley.

Mr. Chairman, I think that is a good question and one we would probably want to get into when we review the Department of Justice's budget. As far as this supp is concerned, we are only dealing with the ADR process that we are in right now.

There possibly are people who went to other residential schools who could have claims against the government. I do not know if they are aware of it. They likely would be given the publicity on this sort of issue. Right now, this is the only one where we have an ongoing ADR process.

Thank you, Mr. Handley. Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think it is important, as a government, that we do make people aware that there is such a program and we ensure that we do not leave anyone out there on their own, that this process does not limit them because they are not associated with this group and whatnot.

I think it is important that we do deal with this matter and deal with it fairly for all people who have been affected by what has happened in our residential schools.