Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I, for one, find it hard to believe that with the amount of money we are spending, $460,000 that is not previously authorized and an overall budget of over $10 million, with a large portion of that going to southern institutions, I blame that on the lack of infrastructure and programs being delivered in the Northwest Territories. You are saying that we have a treatment facility in the Northwest Territories. Right now there is only one treatment facility with 30 beds.
If anything, that is the whole idea of taking the capacity, of taking on these people, it is probably because we are limited in the amount of resources and infrastructure to deliver programs and services. In regard to Tl'oondih and other programs such as that, they did have different professions in that area where you had psychologists and people who deal with the different emotional behaviours. I think because of the attitude of the government saying that you do not have the expertise, well we are able to identify those with expertise in Canada to work to implement these programs in the Northwest Territories. Those programs have worked in the Northwest Territories. Yet again, it seems like without having the resources or having the professions based in the Northwest Territories we will always continue to have this dependency on southern Canada.
I would like to ask the Minister, will you seriously consider doing whatever you can to ensure that we try and attract people with those professions and the expertise like psychologists and people who can deal with these types of children in the Northwest Territories? Can the Minister commit to that?