Thank you. That's a big size of a number, 157 youth in the probation program and 17 youth in custody. We're looking at 174 youths in our system. I just want to, under a general comment, give and lend support to what Ms. Karen Hoeft has said in the presentations to the committee. I think there's definitely a need for us to look at why it is that we have so many youths being put into our correctional system. I think it's a common theme all over the Territories that there's a lack of facilities and programs for youth to be engaged in a productive way. I'll be just repeating statements that I've already said by many if I say that it is better for us to spend the money, care and attention to the youth while they're young and provide the support to them while they're going to school or provide life skills to the families to care for unborn children or even newborn children so that they are less vulnerable to getting into areas or lifestyles where they might end up getting in custody and get in touch with the law by violating it.

Does this legislation contemplate anything about a duty on the part of the government? I understand that this legislation is by and large to bring territorial legislation in line with the federal Young Offenders Act. In any legislation there's usually a purpose or intent in spirit of the legislation. Is there any movement to focus more on that side of youth support rather than concentrating on dealing with what happens and how the governments deal with them when they get into trouble with the law? Thank you.