Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just recently we went through a process of changing an act, the Wildlife Act. This government spent thousands and thousands of dollars consulting people across the North, talking to everybody that would attend their meetings, listening to them, asking about their concerns regarding animals in the North. But we cannot give the same consideration when we talk about people's lives. During the first and second reading I opposed this bill because of the process. I stated that it was flawed. There was no room for aboriginal people to make comment, and through the normal process there should have been an avenue, at least by the Social Programs committee, for the general public to have a say in it. I would have thought, and I had expected, this committee to hear from the people of the North and to hear their positions.

In my opinion, the Minister and the chairman of the Social Programs committee should apologize to the native people of the North for the disservice that they are doing.

As Mr. Krutko has said, the majority of children in foster care right now and the majority of children that are being adopted are aboriginal. We are speaking of rights and we are speaking of liability with no consideration for the aboriginal people. For years the aboriginal people have been saying that they do not want their children going out of the Northwest Territories. For years they have been saying they do not want their children adopted by non-aboriginal families.

We have not heard them, I do not believe, because we are not giving them any consideration. It was my expectation that the committee would have heard a request from the aboriginal people for a special provision for them, but there is not any. There is no avenue for them to submit that. There is really not even an approval process or a consultation process for the different bands that these children will belong to.

We all know and we hear. As an MLA I have experienced now many, many times children that were adopted out to non-aboriginal families and left the North, a lot of them -- I am not saying all of them -- but a lot of them now are coming back, or we are having to track them, and they ended up in very sad situations. Maybe we should study that before we act on new legislation. I cannot support this bill and I still believe the process is flawed. I have stated it during second reading and I continue to state it. I think there is a real important part of our whole consensus government, as we call it, being skipped here. Why, I do not know. Is it because the committee feels that only Yellowknife should be consulted? I do not believe so and I cannot support this bill the way it has been presented and handled. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.