Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, as a person who has had almost 20 years with Health and Social Services, mainly with social services, I can tell you that there have been improvements. We have a long ways to go, but I can just give you some numbers as an example. In 1998 as of March 31st, of all the children in care, only about 3.5 percent were living at home. On March 31, 2002, that is up to 28 percent. We significantly rewrote in the last Assembly the child welfare legislation to build in the specific checks and balances that my colleague referenced. They need to involve family in the community to recognize where children are from, to avoid any further situations where children were taken into the system and disappeared, only to reappear 18 years later. Some were totally unsure of who they are and where they are from.

I know that that has happened. I know people who it has happened to. We've tried to learn from those mistakes. As the letter I wrote to Mr. Nitah points out, our systems still aren't as tight as they should be in terms of the numbers of children that are classified as unknown. But we've made a significant effort in trying to train and hire northern social workers. We're making efforts across the board with alcohol and drug workers and mental health workers. They start dealing with communities and families more effectively so we can, most fundamentally of all, try to avoid having to take children into care. When we do -- I agree with the Member -- we have to be very capable of making sure we have good plan and care that involves the communities and the families, that our systems allow us to know where the children are and if, in fact, we're being successful. Thank you.