Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to ask the Minister if he has looked at the possibility of investing dollars into the facilities we have in the Northwest Territories, so we may accommodate more of our children in northern institutions. Maybe look at investing in expanding some of these facilities, so we do not have to send our children to southern institutions. They could be placed in the Northwest Territories.

You mentioned the lack of beds in the Northwest Territories, but we do have facilities in the North. In Inuvik, we have the Charlotte Vehus HHome, where we have a place for disabled children and what not to go.

I think it is important that as a government, if we are seeing a major increase in the cost of programs and services in the southern institutions and if we have the ability to provide those services in the Northwest Territories, we should start looking at expanding those services. We should try to take a more made-in-the-North approach of having these services provided in the North so we do not have to send our people to southern institutions.

I would like to ask the Minister, have you looked at that, knowing the cost drivers are there, the per diem costs are going up? If that service can be provided in the North, have you considered looking at maybe making the investment in expanding some of these facilities or institutions we have here so we can house more of our children in those facilities?